JOHN LINDER

as Americans struggle with economic uncertainty, Congress seeks to stimulate our stalled economy and create new jobs. However, I daresay that many of my colleagues have overlooked one of the most consistent and dependable solutions…

in today's increasingly global world, we have two choices: We can lead, or we can follow. Historically, the United States has led the race for global competitiveness, and free and fair trade has been a significant factor in our economic…

we are told that silence is golden. However, what happens when the body being silenced is the House of Representatives? Most certainly my colleagues would object to the suppression of our voice and our role in the debate in consideration…

Also, the Senate had no provision for sunsetting or review. The House provisions had a 2-year plus 3-year, so about a 5-year provision for sunsetting.

Not one Member of this body ran for election to go to war. We seek peace. But in the last century, America has spent the lives of our young men and women in major conflicts on five occasions on other shores to restore peace, and now war…

By noon on yesterday, I was thinking about a wonderful book I read many years ago by Alan Paton. It was entitled Cry the Beloved Country. On Tuesday we cried, too. We cried for different reasons than Alan Paton, but we too cried for our…

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ``We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace.'' I could not agree more. Trade…

I first met Paul Coverdell in 1972. He was one of few Republicans in the Georgia State Senate, soon to become its Republican leader, a position he served in for 15 years. He had come to Georgia as a teenager from Iowa. He then attended the…

I served with Joe on the Committee on Rules for a little over 6 years now, and in those 6 years-plus I do not think I ever heard him say a harsh word. He was a kind and decent man. It will not be said very often, but he was a fierce…

With respect to litigation, these rules would begin it all over again. Any little accident on a football field could be said to hurt more when one is working and, therefore, is workplace related; and, therefore, there is a requirement that…

Mr. Speaker, I am just rising out of confusion as to whether the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) states that raising IRA limits to $5,000 is a tax cut for the rich. Does increasing contribution limits for 401(k) plans for…

I agree with the overall point of the gentleman on the debt, and he makes that point eloquently. I will also point out that we are talking about publicly held debt, just as the minority leader was speaking about publicly held debt when he…

I agree that the point the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss) made about preserving and protecting the Social Security and Medicare are important. But I want to go back to the point that we have got the chance to pay down the debt, and…

on the chart that I showed, the never-ending debt that the last Democrat budget that was passed for fiscal year 1995 and 10 years there out created $3.1 trillion in new debt compared to our creating $4.5 trillion in surpluses. A huge turn…

I think, first of all, it is important to set the differences in how we got here. There has been one difference in the two parties since the day I got here, which was in 1993, and the gentleman from California (Mr. Horn) joined us at that…

Mr. Speaker, I do not expect to convince the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kanjorski) what the truth is about the notch. We all hear about it all every time we do town hall meetings, and we hear about it just after some organization in…

reclaiming my time, we would very much like to do that. But if 41 of the Democrats on the other side of the Capitol determine to filibuster, they can stop anything from happening. As the gentleman knows, they have to have 60 votes in that…

Mr. Speaker, a couple of days ago I was talking with a gentleman from the other side of the Capitol about the appropriation process, and he said that he was deeply involved in the Foreign Ops appropriations bill and that the Members on…

I met Paul Coverdell in 1972. He was one of 22 or 23 members of the State Senate who were Republicans, out of 56 members, and 3 years later I was one of 19 members, I believe it was, out of 180 members in the Georgia House who were…

What is the death tax? We all know that the Federal government decided some time ago that there were wealthy families in this country, the Rockefellers, the Ford's, the Carnegies, and people like that. Back then there was kind of a rage…

I have known Paul Coverdell since 1972. There was not an important project in politics or policy that went on in Georgia in the last 28 years in which he was not involved, very often very quietly, very much behind the scenes. Lynne and I…

There is a gentleman at Rutgers University named Dr. Troy who has been studying spending in campaigns for 20 years. What he said is that in the last two cycles, 1996 and 1998, labor unions spent between $400 million and $600 million. If…

I think the crocodile tears the gentleman from New York has for the number of hospital admissions must come from a bad dream, because the EPA said to the court there is no way for us to quantify the health statistics with their new rule…

Mr. Chairman, let me just deal with three points. None of us want our constituents to suffer illness because of air. But let us talk about what actually was said in the court. The D.C. Circuit specifically noted that EPA's arguments on the…

Mr. Speaker, I have got to comment on the fact that the Democrats seem to rather talk about campaign finance reform on this than relieving America from an insidious tax, an immoral tax, a tax on what they accumulated through their lifetime…