Greg Ganske

Nobody ever said it would be easy, and in the political process, our Founding Fathers devised a system that requires multiple steps and it requires eternal vigilance. As one of our Founding Fathers said, that is the price of democracy.

If that is a given and the opposition criticizes our plan, then does the opposition not have a responsibility to offer their plans? Some of the moderate and conservation Democrats on the other side of the aisle did offer a plan. The fact…

If someone does not like our program, then I think they have a responsibility to offer their own specific plan to save the program, which will be insolvent in 5 years. That is only fair. It is a very, very important issue. We either effect…

Mr. Speaker, I think that the gentleman hit upon the appropriate word, and that was ``better.'' The General Accounting Office, the Inspector General, has looked at the way the current Medicare Program is working and has found significant…

I think we ought to emphasize this: In order to achieve those savings, we cannot just leave the program exactly as it is, because in the current program there are areas of waste, fraud, and abuse that administration, there are a number of…

We have a situation, as you mentioned before, where in some parts of the country senior citizens can sign up for health plans where they get practically free prescription drugs, eyeglasses, hearing aids, trips to and from the doctor's…

If I may jump in here, many would criticize our specific plans, either to balance the budget or to reform and preserve and protect Medicare. I am sure that there are some things in all of those areas that the gentleman and I might prefer…

If I may interject, am I not correct in that, I believe it was in 1992, President Clinton, at that time running for office, made a statement very, very close to Speaker Gingrich, where he basically said the Health Care Financing…

And for large areas of our country, we would also have an equalization in the funding that would be very important as well.

That is current law. However, there has never been any teeth in that current law, and we even have examples where in Chinese newspapers from the west coast, Dear Abby columns, you will have somebody writing in, ``My relative just came, got…

But to interject, this goes back to the point that we have made several times before, and that is that the people who are always talking about cuts, cutting this, that you are cutting that, they are the people who, in essence, are arguing…

I am happy to join the gentleman I think on some of the principles that we want to accomplish. We want to accomplish an opportunity society. We want to help make government smaller and more responsive to the citizens. And we basically want…

I think working in that grocery store was one of the best training periods of my entire life.

You get to meet people from every walk of life, and I thank my dad every time I see him for that, although at the time as a younger kid there were times when I probably would have preferred on those Saturdays to be playing golf or…

If I may add to that, in the welfare reform bill there are some significant other items that reinforce the fact that citizens need to be responsible. When a citizen sponsors an immigrant to come into the country, they basically are…

But the point that I wanted to pursue is that even back when I was working in the store--my dad just recently retired from managing a grocery store--there is a significant and a growing problem with abuse in the Food Stamp Program. It is…

I appreciate that and agree with what my colleague has been saying. I have to smile because when he was talking about his father coming home and discussing the three or six newspapers that he had read that day with you and all of the…

before coming to Congress I was a physician in Des Moines, IA. My wife is a family physician. My wife has helped 13-year-old girls deliver their babies. I have taken care of 15-years-olds who have gunshot wounds to the head, and…

I speak in favor of this bill. This legislation not only protects the environment and human health, but it does so in a way that is smarter and better than before. Gone are many of the costly and inflexible command and control mandates…

I rise, not surprisingly, since I have cosponsored this amendment, in support of this amendment. Mr. Chairman, this should not be an annual rite of spring. We should eliminate this funding. James van Allen, a respected scientist at the…

we are going to get our first vote on raising the minimum wage today. I am going to vote for it. I have been concerned that legislation with good motives can have adverse consequences, so I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to…

prior to November 1994, as a practicing physician, I counseled parents who were seeking to adopt. Many times they would come to me with a letter and a photograph of a child that they were going to adopt who might have a birth defect. Many…

this do-something Congress is working hard for the American people. Yesterday, we passed legislation to make health insurance more affordable. We passed a bill to allow senior citizens to retain more of their earnings if they remain in the…

this bill will help fix a health care system that has been beyond the means for many Americans. Now a worker who wants to pursue his career but cannot change jobs because of an illness in the family would be covered by a new employer's…

Today, we move forward to approve new farm bill legislation which, for the first time ever, will begin to remove the inside-the-beltway, Washington bureaucrat from the backs of the American farmer. We have had to wait until 1996 to come to…