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I rise in support of H.R. 1350, which reforms and re-Authorizes the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Nation's primary special education law. This reauthorization of IDEA offers an opportunity to renew our commitment…
Member after Member has come to the floor, Mr. Speaker, and told us about the debt and explained to us how the debt is going to increase under just the Republican version of the budget. Let us take a look at the Democrat version of the…
Let us talk about next year and what the Blue Dog budget does next year. It increases the debt limit. That is interesting. There are lots of complaints about raising the debt limit; but both of the alternatives provided by the other party…
I yield myself 15 seconds to just be able to respond and say we increase the transportation fund $30 billion. I cannot believe that the gentleman would suggest that that is a paltry sum, number one; and, number two, you better get with the…
First of all, we increase discretionary spending 6.1 percent on veterans, we increase the mandatory spending 7 percent, and they call that a cut. They ask us to honor veterans. In fact, in this country we honor veterans so much that we…
first of all, I thank the very distinguished chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for his work in getting us to this point in time. Obviously there are a number of challenges. I will continue to work with him and…
The budget is intended to protect farm programs and the crop insurance program. Our committee will work with the chairman and other members of the Committee on Agriculture such as yourself to ensure that we protect critical farm programs…
I yield myself 2\1/2\ minutes just to show my colleague from Mississippi, who does care about this; I do not begrudge him that at all. I just want to let him know that I also share in the concern over debt. But since he was slightly…
I want to thank the Blue Dog Coalition for coming forth with yet another budget proposal this year. I believe this is a consistent track record for the Blue Dogs in providing a budget resolution for consideration. We will disagree with…
It is a frustration of mine, and it is the reason why I put the budget out that I did this year. When we got to surplus, and we have seen the chart, when we got to balancing and began going into surplus, particularly into discretionary…
Mr. Chairman, in Washington sometimes people define cuts not as less money than the year before, but as decreases in anticipated increases. The gentleman who just spoke has issued yet a new one, that is, if we used to have a draft of a…
I want to thank them for the work that they do. They have been asked to do a job, they do it, they do it well, and we find ourselves on the floor ready to debate the bill on time and ready to debate the budget within the procedure that we…
Mr. Chairman, we cannot quantify the cost of our freedom; however, in passing a budget we must calculate the cost of our homeland security and our household security. To fulfil this duty, we are best guided by the verities of our history…
We believe that we need to continue to control that spending in the outyears as well. We also believe, and that is the reason why the budget was presented the way it was, that the President had some areas where we could control. This was…
A person's work here in Congress speaks much louder than rooms that are named after them or statues that may collect dust in the hallways. It is right and fitting and appropriate that we name this room after Dick Armey, but I can tell you…
Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Manzullo), the very distinguished Committee on Small Business chairman, my neighbor and friend, brought to me a problem of the government overestimating SBA loan defaults and…
I rise in support of S. 23, which will provide a 5-month extension of the Federal emergency unemployment insurance benefits. This measure is not inexpensive. The bill carries a $7.25 billion price tag for fiscal year 2003, and moreover…
Mr. Speaker, budgeting is about choices, and it is about putting together a plan. We did so together with the President this last year. All of the items that we find on the PAYGO scorecard fit within that plan. All of the items as a result…
Mr. Speaker, the very distinguished gentleman who just spoke suggested that he read with interest our plan, and we all appreciate the fact that he did read with interest our plan. At least we have a plan to read. Since September 11, the…
Mr. Speaker, while I certainly enjoy the philosophical discussion of budget process and budget enforcement with maybe the best of them, the fact of the matter is that this is a real vote and you are either going to vote yes to prevent…
I would like to add my words as well to a brief tribute to our majority leader. We would not be a majority if it was not for Dick Armey. There are many people who know that. Unfortunately, there are too many people who do not know that…
the President said in his first address to the Congress that there were three reasons why this country may have to return to deficits: one was an emergency, one was a war, one was an economic recession. There is no one in this body who…
I rise reluctantly today in opposition to this resolution and I would like to explain why. I support Congress taking the necessary legislative steps, since Congress has not yet passed an appropriation bill for many of the subcommittees of…
This short-term CR would, if it were to last for an entire year, provide, according to the Congressional Budget Office, $744.3 billion in budget authority which in fact would not exceed the appropriate level in the budget resolution…
I know the gentleman will most likely have the last word on this, so I will make my comments brief; but I have a slightly different take on who might be responsible here. The rules of the House may not permit me to be quite as specific as…
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