Charles Norwood

the veil of obfuscation must be lowered in this House, if you are to ever hear the truth. I sat here last night in great pain and had to listen to lawyer after lawyer come down in this well and champion the virtues of the trial lawyers…

we have gone too far in the area of non- economic damages. No other country in the world awards non-economic damages at or even near the levels of awards in the United States. It is almost impossible for anyone to put a dollar figure on…

that the other side continues to accuse us of cutting funding for child nutrition programs is ludicrous. I voted in committee to increase the funding child nutrition programs are receiving, yet people are calling my office worried that we…

I have for you today a couple of OSHA nightmares which illustrate OSHA's overbearing enforcement policies. Although OSHA eventually dropped the charges in both cases, I think they still provide valuable insight into the mentality of an…

someone once defined the Federal welfare system as the result of Americans wanting--in the worst way--to help those who have fallen behind. There must be a way to help people without trapping them in dependency, robbing their self-respect…

we have now completed 59 days of very hard work in this House, and as I sit back and ponder what we have accomplished in these 59 days I am really struck by the differences in what we on this side of the aisle are doing and what the…

It is called cutting bureaucrats and cutting paperwork and spending our money on what we are trying to do, which is to feed children.

Earlier today when we were listening to this litany of half-truths, one of the statements that kept coming up is that well, we want a capital gains tax so we can give it to our rich friends, and that will keep us from funding the…

I think we are going to do what we were told do. The Contract With America is not Newt Gingrich's contract, it is a contract taken from the people of this country when they told us last summer what they wanted to do. We are going to do it…

I am afraid--I do not want us to miss a couple of more details about the nutritional programs before we get off that. But one of the things that will make this work is that the amount of increase is 4.5 percent a year for the next 5 years…

Are we being bad because we are cutting money that they cannot spend because they have got so much they are spending it all up? What is going on with that?

Because he knows he will. Our school superintendent realized that there are 110 Federal employees sitting in Atlanta, GA, directing the food program in Georgia, the lunch program, and she realizes full well that if we will block grant this…

Well, probably the big difference is that we care more about the WIC Program than they do, because the greatest threat in the world to the WIC Program is this county going bankrupt. I mean, I have wondered for a long time why we have not…

It is going to be a lot harder on us if we don't. I know they told me in that election that they want this budget balanced, they want us to deal with this debt, and they want it done by cutting spending. The important thing I believe is…

Presuming there are one or two, I have to tell you, I wondered tonight, as I listened, has any country, any nation on Earth ever, ever spent more money for the poor than the United States of America? And in doing that, what we basically do…

Even if they do not call it back up, it is going to tell the American people who to vote out of the Senate in 1996. I mean I know the message sent to me was that we want to stop the spending. The American people know we owe $5 trillion…

You would sort of think that the other side, after 40 years, would catch on that you sort of got to take care of the goose that lays the golden egg, and the goose is free enterprise, people that work out there using their own money, not…

Of course, thanks to the Federal Government, we cannot ask anybody if they have AIDS. If the gentleman can make sense out of that, tell me after the program. But I will tell the gentleman the dentists in this country are paying now…

That is in my Committee on Commerce, and I want make very clear that when we hear some Members here talking, talking about business, they are talking about Amoco, and they are talking about G.M. When I talk about business, I am talking…

I want to make it very clear we are going to spend in 1995 $5.9 billion. We are going to increase that spending next year to $6.1 billion, and we have also made absolutely sure that 80 percent of this money goes to feed low-income families.

I start my day everyday at 6:30, and generally it ends at midnight. I think that is wonderful, because I was sent here to do a job, and I was sent here to win, and there is just not too many hours in the day I am not willing to give to it…

I rise today in support of hardworking Americans everywhere who are being unjustly punished by the IRS. The IRS encourages people to file electronically. It saves time, paper, and mailing costs. Many Americans have utilized this service…

I rise today in support of giving local law enforcement the power to do what they think is best. That is what my sheriff, Charlie Webster of Richmond County, GA, wants. The bill we are debating gives State and local governments the funds…

let us talk about disincentive. In a typically bizarre manner, OSHA has created a rule that provides a disincentive for employers to look out for the safety of their workers. If an employer voluntarily starts a study to see if their…

for years, the American people have supported the line-item veto as another tool to help control Government spending and balance the budget. In November 1994, a poll showed that 77 percent of the American people supported the line-item…