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Mr. Speaker, it might be pointed out that I did not make any of these claims. All these claims were made by college professors doing studies, including Ohio State, University of California, University of Georgia, University of Wisconsin…
at least our colleague has admitted now that they are burdening business with the cost.
I would say that the gentleman from Michigan's words have the quality of Alice in Wonderland, seeming to say when I use a word it means exactly what I want it to do.
Let me just say, leave it to the Democrats to suggest that elected officials can give people raises. If they want to give these people a raise, hire them and put them on their payroll, and then they can pay them anything they would like…
Congratulations America. Today you begin to work for yourself. Tuesday was tax freedom day. For the previous 4 months and 7 days, Americans have worked solely to pay local, State, and Federal taxes. At last, working Americans are earning…
Today is tax freedom day. May 7 is the day we stop working to pay our tax bill and the day we begin to work for ourselves and our families. Incredibly, the average American must work from January 1 through today just to earn enough money…
this is silly season already. Usually it does not come until August. If this were really an important issue for people earning $9,000 a year or less, why did not the Democrats, who owned the House, the Senate, and the White House, mention…
it is fascinating, the gentleman from Missouri was not here 2 years ago asking to help the working poor with an increase in the minimum wage, because he had the House controlled by Democrats, the Senate controlled by Democrats, and the…
bowing to special interests, the veto President is poised to strike again. The President who stopped welfare reform, tax cuts, and a balanced budget announced this past weekend that he will veto a bipartisan legal reform bill. As Governor…
the gentlewoman who spoke just before us talked with great glee about this President's balanced budget, but she did not tell the whole story. He also protected $7 million for foreign countries to teach their children how to measure…
President Clinton is fighting, threatening a Government shutdown, for $7 million more to send to foreign countries to educate their students on the environment and rainfall measurement techniques. He wants to give $10 million more to the…
this morning's Washington Post had an article quoting the Senate minority leader as saying that we are 5 days from a third Government shutdown and the situation is every bit as precarious as it was several months ago. What it did not go on…
Mr. Speaker, what we have before us is a complex piece of legislation that is the product of many long months of negotiation. I believe that the conferees have worked in good faith to create a balanced bill which equalizes the diverse…
When Jimmy Carter cut the capital gains tax in 1977 there were $50 million in venture capital pools. The revenues from the capital gains category increased in every succeeding year until 1986, when the venture capital pools had more than…
first, I would like to point out that the revenues to the Treasury doubled between 1980 and 1990. Tax cuts doubled revenues; that can add to debt. Let me just say about the President's budget, the gentleman says it was one that the…
I will be willing to admit that it is unfortunate that Federal employees are being furloughed in this great debate. But they are not the only hostages. They are not the only innocent ones. There are several hundred million people in this…
we are engaged in a great debate over the direction of the country. It is messy. It has always been thus. No one, however, is questioning the integrity of the people on either side of this House on this debate. We do not question those on…
I rise only to respond to the ranking member of the Committee on Appropriations's remarks about our obligation to provide services that have already been paid for. That is the point of this debate. For 26 years we have been providing…
it is my great good pleasure to welcome to the House today, Dr. James Merritt, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Snellville, GA. Dr. Merritt is not my pastor--but he is my friend. I enjoy attending his church to listen to a man of God…
my daughter is grown and she and her husband have a 1 -year-old son and another child on the way. The last time an official House committee submitted a bill to balance the budget, she was 2. Today, House Republicans present the first…
this does not seem all that complicated. It does not change any rates of taxation of capital gains. It excludes 50 percent of the gain. Therefore, you are taxed at the 39.6-percent tax rate. Fifty percent of any gain would be excluded…
well, there was an example of the misleading hyperbole that we have heard for the last several weeks on Republican programs. My friend from Hawaii talks about a bill that passed last week that protected billionaires and, in fact, the bill…
several years ago the American people were rightfully outraged when U.S. Congressmen wrote checks on empty bank accounts. The House Bank scandal was a disgrace to this body and an example of the lack of fiscal accountability common in…
First, Mr. Speaker, let me address the question of closed rules that keeps coming up from the Democrat side. Not to sound too remedial, but the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Frost] made it clear that the only reference in the contract was to…
The language the gentlewoman used, that this is taking away the right to sue, has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality about it. The gentleman from Michigan who says this is the most egregious rule he has ever seen has a very short memory…
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