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it is the end of the week, and in that great American school yard tradition it is time for a pop quiz. This might be hard for those suffering from left-wing brain deficiency disorder, but let us give it a go anyhow. Which sum is greater…
If we want to have a discussion, let us get on the concrete foundation that the figure $179 is smaller than the number $304, and remove from the discussion that Medicare is cut. Could we agree that $304 is bigger than $179?
If the gentleman will yield. Here we have a President who in 1992 did run on a middle-class tax cut. In fact, one of his ads said, ``Hi, I am Bill Clinton, I believe you deserve a change, that is why I have a plan to get the economy moving…
It is valuable if you believe in what you are saying. If you are saying stuff, as a couple of your colleagues were the other night about Newt Gingrich's statement regarding HCFA, and trying to imply that was a Medicare statement, which the…
If you think about it, how many people do you know in your district in California have been able to provide for their family based on a 20-hour work week. I would be willing to bet zero. I asked this question of an audience in Georgia…
I could not report objectively on, let us say, my son or daughter if they were in elected office. I went to a school play this weekend. My daughter had a small role in it. I loved it. I tell you what, that was the most important role in…
Increasing. So why do you suppose there are Members of the House who say increasing Medicare from $179 to $304 billion is a cut? Can you explain that? That is the discussion question.
even though there are only a few of us present now, I am going to pose a pop quiz to the House. The question is who made the following statement: Today, Medicaid and Medicare are going up at three times the rate of inflation. We propose to…
One of the true benefits and best parts about serving in public office is getting to know so many people. The constituents in Georgia's First Congressional district are an outstanding example of great Americans who have made this Nation…
a lot of people think that the President has lost touch since he has flip-flopped so many times that maybe it has affected his head and his thinking. But it is not true. Bill Clinton still feels your pain. In fact, Bill Clinton feels your…
I have two other sources that confirm the same thing. Here is the Washington Post, that great conservative newspaper which has endorsed every Democrat who has run for office for the President since the paper's existence, but it says here…
For Mother's Day you can tell her that the Republican proposal for Medicare increases her benefits from $5,000 to $7,000 and saves the fund from going broke by giving her more options. Those options, as we all know, put more competition in…
It is a complex problem, buying gas. I could see why Mr. Stephanopoulos could not follow it. ``You mean people actually fill up the gas tank and drive to work?'' That would be revolutionary over there on Pennsylvania Avenue.
No. 2, saying that a fund that is losing money does not have financial problems. Then No. 3, saying that the new Republican budget cuts Medicare, when the Republican budget that has just been introduced this year actually increases…
Another great example of this is the minimum wage. It sounds great. "Let's give people 90 cents an hour more. It won't hurt them." Yet if you look at what an increase in the minimum wage has done over the last increases, it decreases the…
Well, what this editorial had to do with was when we introduced our plan to save and protect Medicare and the Democrats started demagoguing it through fear because, as Mrs. Seastrand said, they had no plan of their own. So what this does…
I heard a similar quote that said ignorance and bliss is easy. Let me just say that I think it is important for all of our constituents to call us, to write us, to get involved, to come to town meetings and so forth. We are in a huge…
let us look at this, because here we have a trust fund that has lost $4.2 billion a year to date on Medicare. Here we have the Clinton appointed Medicare trustees last April saying that it would be broke in 6 years. Then what do we have…
But one thing we must never forget is that gas, every single gallon, is 4.3 cents higher because Bill Clinton resides in the White House, and under a Democrat majority Congress they increased your gas prices 4.3 cents per gallon and…
I know the folks over there are simply economically ignorant. I do not believe they are malicious, but you know, who do you think is going to get jobs when you eliminate the minimum wage? Or when you increase it? It is going to be good-bye…
A story of one of your freshmen colleagues really fits in there, and that is that of Sonny Bono, one of your better known freshmen. He tells the story of leaving Hollywood and going to Palm Springs to start a restaurant. He needed to make…
The gentleman from Florida had mentioned OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and for years this has been the group that was kind of the government watchdog on health and safety in the workplace. Certainly it came into…
The other thing is that if we want to help workers, we do want to have a safe work environment. Everybody, an employer, government employees, everybody will agree on that. But if we want to help the workers across America, the key thing we…
What the bureaucrats in Washington are telling us is they are so smart, they can do it in all of our hometowns.
But I have just as much faith in your folks as I do in mine, and my people would do fine without Washington command and control bureaucrats telling them how they need to run education, telling them how to run the environment, telling them…
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