Charles Norwood

our present tax system, and all Americans would agree, is simply too complex. It is too difficult. In addition to that, we spend way too many nonproductive hours in this country trying to prepare for taxes, trying to avoid taxes, just…

Today, Mr. Speaker, I again rise to introduce legislation to rename the Southern Piedmont Conservation Research Center in Watkinsville, GA, after a great pioneer in Georgia agriculture, J. Phil Campbell, Sr. When I introduced this…

I detect, as we go into this debate, some frustration on the other side of the aisle from those who would have federalized health care in this country just 2 years ago or socialized medicine. But, Mr. Speaker, I am going to rise today in…

What we are basically asking this body to do, and I urge Members to do this with every bone in my body, is pass this amendment for the American people. What we have here is a simple problem that simply needs to be corrected. What is right…

If the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Jones] would yield further, as we are headed toward conclusion, I want to point out another thing that has happened in this contract that drives me crazy. It is one of the reasons why the American…

we have been assured that everything is wonderful, that everybody is doing exactly what they need to do, that patients will have all the access to care that they possibly want, and that there are really no problems. You know, I want to…

You may correctly assume that I have much better things to do with my time than to argue with and complain about a government contractor that is not performing as specified. My full attention should be given to my patients and their…

No. And, more importantly, maybe I do not believe it has been, but neither has GAO or the Congressional Budget Office. I talked about that when we first started. In their hearings before us, they had made more than a few comments about the…

Delta Dental had 113,000 dentists in their network nationwide. Concordia has said, ``Well, we can do it with 40,000.'' That means less access. They have only been able to sign up 33,000. Eighty thousand not willing to sign up and work for…

When we do not pay enough to let people make a living, then we may be assured access will be affected, and so will quality of care. Those are the three things that the Department of Defense says it is interested in. I hope that they have…

today we will make a great step forward, in my opinion, in making health care available to all Americans. The Health Care Coverage Availability and Affordability Act will give Americans the two things they need most: increased access to…

not so long ago, the President stood before us in this very Chamber and declared that ``the era of big Government is over.'' His latest budget tells a different story, particularly with taxes. The President wants to raise taxes immediately…

We have tried very hard, Mr. Tiahrt, to hear from all people involved in health care. That means the patient, that means groups represented by AARP, that means the hospital and the hospital administrators. They are involved in health care…

I would very much like to respond to that. Earlier this spring, we had a tax reform tax bill. In my view, what that was, it was a tax rebate. The 103d Congress raised the largest amount of taxes ever raised in the history of the United…

I do not know if once and for all is correct. A crook is a crook and is going to continue to be a crook. But in general, we are tightening that up tremendously. It was very interesting to me in the markup yesterday that we were talking…

No, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the gentleman for asking, many of those hearings lasted all day. What I noticed most of all was that the loyal opposition failed to come. We have had all summer to discuss this bill, and we have done that. I…

we need to talk a little bit about the specifics. I think that, if there is anything good that has come out of the Committee on Commerce markup over the last 2 days, at least we have the Democrats admitting that part A of the trust fund is…

The networks may be just a group of physicians who are offering part B. It may be a group just of hospitals that are offering part A. Or it may be a combination of physicians and hospitals who get together and achieve the efficiencies that…

The marketplace comes into this. The marketplace is going to bring these costs down.

Mr. Chairman, the Markey cable amendment embodies all that is wrong with Government regulation. It sets prices for a private industry, cable television. It lowers the threshold for price controls to systems with 10,000 or fewer…

yesterday the Secretary of Labor issued a so-called analysis that supposedly showed that Republican OSHA reforms would lead to more workplace injuries. This is outrageous fearmongering. Instead of playing politics, the Secretary should be…

by now it is no secret that I want to change the way OSHA does business. I have come to the floor many times to talk about the excesses of OSHA. But our OSHA reform bill is not simply about curbing the regulatory excesses of OSHA; our bill…

today's vote to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia is undeniably an important one. But I would ask my colleagues to take a long, hard look at the bigger picture. Lifting the arms embargo is an important step and a step that I will support…

over and over, we hear the Democrats wailing that the capital gains tax cut will benefit the rich. Of course, they have obscured the facts again. The capital gains relief in the Tax Fairness Act will go to benefit all income groups…

I rise very proudly to support the amendment of gentleman from Texas, [Mr. DeLay]. I do so for two reasons: The first reason that I support this amendment is I find it absolutely unbelievable that we allow a federal agency to absolutely…