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One thing that he has done a lot for, that I think that it is important to talk about in terms of getting everybody at the table, because when we were passing welfare reform we were accused of pushing children out in the street, pushing…
Let me look at Synthroid here. Synthroid, why does the gentleman maybe tell us what it is used for. In America, our American citizens have to pay $13.84. In Canada they can get it for $2.95.
Let us look at Prozac. Prozac is $36.13 in America. In Europe, it is $18.50, and I would suppose in Canada maybe it is $25.
It stops the practice of not being able to buy the same drug for a cheaper price in Canada?
People can go to Canada and buy it if they live in Maine or Michigan; it is ready access. It will not really help us much in Georgia, but the fact they could get it, and they should under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Free trade…
86 percent of our seniors take at least one prescription a year, and the average senior consumes about 18 prescriptions each year. The average cost for the drugs is around $1,000 annually, or about $80 a month. Mr. Speaker, 44 percent of…
Nancy Coverdell has lost a great husband, as has the Coverdell family lost a great member. The United States of America has lost a great Senator. Georgia has lost a great leader and the Republican party in Georgia has lost the father of…
did the gentleman know that the Tax Code contains 5.7 million words. Now, that is eight times as many words as the Bible. One thing they do have in common is the Tax Code gives lots of instructions, but the Tax Code gives very little…
About the marriage tax penalty, I have found in my district that the Democrats and Republicans are united on that. There are 25 million people paying absurd taxes. People are in favor of it. Another tax decrease this House has passed is…
Another part of that is not only passing the money on in our Nation from one generation to the next generation, but from family to family. The death taxes that rob so many of our families, our farmers, is a factor. I live in a growth area…
I do want to say this. We lost a great United States Senator this week. It is tragic for all parties. In discussing him, I learned a lot from Senator Paul Coverdell. One thing I learned, although he was a Republican and was a great, key…
One thing about Paul is one may agree or disagree with him, but one always respects his energy level, his knowledge of the issue, and the way he is so focused in attacking things. We are all his friends. He is a friend of the institution…
in Savannah, we are blessed. My wife's grandmother, 97-year-old Betty Carswell is still alive and in good health. She is on Social Security and she needs it. When I was a boy, growing up down the street my good friend Ross Fox's dad died…
Mr. Chairman, I wanted to speak in favor of the amendment, and I do so with the greatest respect, of course, to the committee upon which I serve. But if we look at the seniors who are having to go across the border to get prescription…
we have a Vice President who wants to do away with the internal combustion engine. And I guess that is fine, for the inventor of the Internet, who thinks all the world should go to the office on the information highway. But with that…
I am doing that in the name of some constituents of mine, Brian and Sue Doe in Vidalia, Georgia. Now Mr. Doe is retired from the police force, and Mrs. Doe is retired from the Piggly-Wiggly Grocery Store chain. They are on a fixed income…
Mr. Chairman, I do not know if there is anybody opposed to this or not. I hope this is a constructive amendment. All it simply asks is that the Office of Inspector General give us a study of the economic basis of the recent gasoline price…
Mr. Chairman, on a bipartisan basis is send a signal out to any employee who works at Los Alamos in a sensitive area who refuses to take a polygraph test that we believe the security of our Nation is more important than their personal…
Mr. Speaker, the way I look at it is that the intent is to put the money in fact in Medicare as opposed to the NEA or the AmeriCorps or public broadcasting or whatever else. The idea behind it is to say Medicare is a much higher priority…
Mr. Chairman, consider the case of Sue and Dan Williams. I am going to change the name a little bit, but they are real people. Sue was on welfare for several years, trapped in the hopeless welfare cycle and then during welfare, because of…
in the Democrats' not-ending attempt to create class warfare and their obsession of hate and vengeance towards the successful in our society, they forget the small business owner or the family farmer who has to pay as much as 50 percent of…
in 1978, Susan Tagera left her corporate job at IBM and decided to pursue her American dream of owning her own business, a bicycle shop. She worked real hard over the 21 years to build up this shop and get a good clientele. Unfortunately…
the Republican Party continues to work on the B.E.S.T. agenda for the American people. B stands for building up the military and looking after our veterans and military retirees and active duty personnel. E stands for excellence in…
Mr. Chairman, I think to understand the Calvert amendment, what we really need to do is go back to the basic philosophy of the bill, which is to say that the $5.4 trillion debt ridden national government is going to take $3 billion a year…
Absolutely. I am looking for a percentage, 25 percent, 50 percent? How much land should the Federal Government own?
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