I thank the gentleman for yielding and rise in opposition to this amendment. And I do so as a proud RSC member and somebody who fought hard to get us to $100 billion in this cut, who has pledged to work for more cuts in fiscal year 2012. I…
Jack Kingston
The Public Record
In 2004, the WTO, the World Trade Organization, found the United States guilty of illegal subsidies to American cotton farmers. It's been a long process, but Brazil is a very important ally of ours. We get along fine. They are very…
I'm sitting here hearing what a wonderful organization the U.N. is, and I can't help but wonder: Where in the heck were they during Rwanda? Where were they? I would love to yield the floor to anybody out there. You know, that was the most…
I believe we should put farm subsidies on the table. And that's why in this bill we have included cuts to very popular agriculture red state, if you will, programs, rural development, the Farm Service Agencies, and the NRCS. All kinds of…
But the reason why they may be more motivated from a economic basis is they directly benefit from the economic impact. I do agree with you the Federal Government should not be worried about the economic impact, but where the Federal…
I just want to say that the ag section of this bill cuts $5.2 billion. Three to four of those billions comes straight from production agriculture, not from school nutrition and other socially sensitive programs.
I stand in strong support of the Rehberg amendment. I do so because of this very controversial health care bill which was passed through strong-arm tactics last year during a time period when the American public was crying out against it…
I thank the gentleman from Georgia for the time. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we got the President's budget and it was basically more of the same: higher taxes, more spending, more deficits. In fact, it will give us the third year of…
Maybe the Democrats want to insist that the stimulus money stay in there. We go after the remaining portion, $2 billion. Maybe they think that's a bad thing and maybe we should get more out of it. But rather than just having the same old…
I agree, we have a genuine problem with kids today who were brought here by their parents as young children illegally. In fact, in my area, some of these kids were 3 and 4 years old and they are far more Americans and Georgians culturally…
I think if there is one thing we all agree on right now is we need our students to be as competitive as possible, but we are cutting academic competitiveness $36 million. But we are increasing Congress's budget. House of Representatives…
I want to say that I do understand we are here largely because there was not a budget this year and we were unable to move bills under regular order. And because of that, here we have something that was published, as I understand it, last…





