JOHN LINDER

Businesses do not pay taxes, they collect taxes from other entities and pass them along. I think we should be honest about that.

I do share the Ranking Member's frustration that we are talking about it again, rather than doing something about it.

Mr. Speaker, this bill comes to the floor in a fashion too many bills have not in this Congress: First, we held a subcommittee hearing. Then the legislation was drafted with bipartisan support. Finally, we ensured that it does not increase…

Some Democrats have said the welfare expansion in this bill is about jobs. It's not. It's about more welfare. This bill would expand the welfare emergency fund Democrats created in last year's failed stimulus bill. That fund made available…

Mr. Speaker, we are here today to consider legislation paying another $34 billion in unemployment benefits. The other side says that these unemployment benefits stretching to almost 2 years are needed and must be added to the $13 trillion…

Mr. Speaker, we are asked to believe that $34 billion in spending in this new bill is an emergency and thus need not be paid for. But since this is the eighth extension of UI benefits in the past 2 years, Members need to ask, can the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this deficit extender bill. This bill reflects the American people's rejection of the even more expensive bill Democrat leaders wanted to pass this week but couldn't, so now they're searching for an…

I would like to express my sincere sorrow to the families of those who were killed or wounded in that accident and all mine accidents and remind our friends that this could have been done on unanimous consent without a rule, but since the…

ATMs ran out of cash, so now we have no idea how those funds were spent, but I suspect many can guess. The Subcommittee on Welfare, on which I serve, recently had a hearing on this fund. One witness noted taxpayers already spend an…

This resolution is one that, in a perfect world, would not be necessary. In that perfect world, every child would live with two married parents, and every parent would be unfailingly caring and loving for that child. But even as we promote…

I oppose this legislation. Since the Democrats' 2009 stimulus law, 3.3 million jobs have been eliminated, not the 3.7 million jobs they forecast it would create. Unemployment has risen to 10 percent, not the 8 percent peak Democrats…

I feel rude trying to inject some fact into this kabuki theater, but I am going to try: 85 percent of America is insured; 95 percent of those people are happy with their insurance. The other 15 percent uninsured, they consume 70 percent on…

Drip, drip, drip. Here we are for yet another extension of unemployment benefits and various related programs. These programs have been repeatedly extended, even as Democrats claim their economic stimulus plan has worked and is creating…

The bill before us, the Social Security Disability Applicants' Access to Professional Representation Act of 2010, will make permanent provisions first enacted in a demonstration program included in the Social Security Protection Act of…

I simply cannot support the creation of a new entitlement that would send another $8.5 billion in unpaid-for Federal spending out the door.

I listened to fiscal conservatives rail against this bill, and I think about an article I read in this morning's Washington Post. Over in Arlington, which is just across the river, they have a clinic where people go who don't have health…

when SCHIP first passed about a dozen years ago, Georgia's program was called Peach Care. It was open to large numbers of people, and millions signed up, many of whom came off private health insurance to do so. A friend of mine, who made…

As a matter of fact, I was in the Chair and I was accused of shutting down the vote while people were in the well seeking to vote. And the next day the C-SPAN tapes proved you were wrong and I was right. The people coming in to vote were…

I was a friend of Charlie's for over 30 years. We met in the early 1970s when he was the president of the Georgia Dental Association and I was a practicing dentist and a young State legislator. Charlie never ever was in neutral, and he…

Mr. Speaker, about 2 years ago, the Government Accountability Office brought before the Ways and Means Committee a study that said if we continue to tax at the current percentage of the economy and continue to spend in discretionary…

In 1928, two gentlemen in Congress by the names of Smoot and Hawley drafted a bill to reduce tariffs to broadly increase markets, particularly for farmers. And after 4 years, it became not a tariff reduction bill, but a tariff increase…

I met Charlie Norwood over 30 years ago. We were both young dentists in Georgia. He was the president of the Georgia Dental Association, and I was a young, newly elected dentist in the Georgia legislature. And his enthusiasm blew me away…

In January of 2005 University of Florida scientist Michael Atkinson, a gene therapy advocate, said: "Two years ago, the embryonic stem cell field was hype, hype, hype. It is still that way in California, but I think that field has hit a…

I thank Chairman Hyde for the time. I hope my colleagues will all join in support of H. Res. 994. Mr. Speaker, 5 years ago I stood on the House floor and proclaimed that I was not without hope for America's ability to eliminate the scourge…