Jim Nussle

promoting international trade is essential to our economy and to our ability to secure America's future. Granting the President authority to improve and expand trade agreements is essential to securing America's future. We cannot say that…

I rise to speak on H.R. 3338, providing appropriations for the Department of Defense. This bill does not currently comply with the fiscal year 2002 budget resolution, but is generally consistent with legislation recently marked up by the…

I rise in favor of H.R. 2904, providing appropriations for military construction. H.R. 2904 provides $10.5 billion in budget authority and $9.2 billion in outlays for fiscal year 2002. It is fully consistent with the concurrent resolution…

Mr. Speaker, not one penny of the Medicare funds will be used for anything except Medicare. That is the commitment in this budget. That remains. If the projections change in August, it is because of one reason: there has been a downturn in…

I rise to speak on H.R. 220, providing appropriations to the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and various independent agencies. While I have some concern about several provisions in the bill, the bill is…

I rise in support of H.R. 2506, a bill providing the appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs. As chairman of the Committee on the Budget, I am pleased to report to my colleagues that this bill is…

I share the concern that the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) is raising about Mexican trucks. This is the wrong place and the wrong way to address it, in an appropriations bill. I think there is a lot of concern over the Mexican truck…

I rise in support of H.R. 2216, a bill providing supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2001. As the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, I would advise my colleagues that this bill is within the levels established by the budget…

I rise in support of H.R. 1088, the Investor and Capital Markets Fee Relief Act of 2001. As the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, I can report to my colleagues that this important bill is fully contemplated and consistent with the…

the increase was not explicitly reflected in the budget function for veterans because the discretionary increases in the conference report were distributed across all budget functions. As the distinguished chairman knows, it is the…

Bipartisanship is his concern and it is my concern. However, we may differ slightly on what bipartisanship means. If bipartisanship means we have to agree on everything all of the time, that is a goal we probably cannot achieve. This is a…

before I respond, let me thank the gentleman for his leadership. There is no one in this House that stands ahead of the chairman of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs when it comes to advocating for our Nation's veterans. In response to…

Mr. Speaker, this is an opportunity to vote for either excuses or opportunities. That is what we are faced with here today. First the excuses: ``we cannot,'' ``we should not,'' ``it will not work.'' Those are the excuses. The excuses have…

I rise to thank the Members who supported the conference report first of all, but most especially I would like to thank the staff of the Committee on the Budget, both majority and minority, Rich Meade and Jim Bates from the majority side…

maybe I can expedite this. Maybe it is my upbringing or whatever it is, but I have a difficult time having my friends from the Committee on Rules trying to sweep under the rug or cover for mistakes that I am responsible for. I am the…

To increase the funding for education in the House resolution to provide for maximum feasible funding. Now, the gentleman from California is a Member of the House who stands behind no one when it comes to his advocacy of education and…

Mr. Speaker, first of all, it is good to have the opportunity to discuss some of the budget issues with the gentleman from South Carolina. I would have thought over the last couple of weeks some issues would have resolved themselves, but…

we are hopefully coming to the end of our legislative session for the year and for the 106th Congress. That will be a happy time for a lot of people because it means we get to go home to our families, to our districts for the election, but…

There will be one person who will probably, above all other people, and my guess is that that will be shared in a bipartisan way from both sides of the aisle, who stood just a little bit taller than the rest of the politicians and…

Mr. Speaker, this is a bill. Now, the gentleman has a long and very stellar career in this Congress and I know the gentleman knows full well the difference between a resolution, a proclamation, and a bill. Because a bill can become a law…

Mr. Speaker, last month, H.R. 4601 took the first step toward eliminating the national debt by the year 2013. That bill set aside additional non-Social Security surpluses for fiscal year 2000 for debt reduction by depositing the money in a…

First of all, on choice, the seniors that I represent in Iowa, they want to know that they are going to have choices in this particular bill. They are tired of a one-size-fits-all government program called Medicare that tells them exactly…

I talked to a financial planner one time about how he counsels people that find themselves in debt, and the first thing he says when he counsels people is, when you find yourselves in a hole, stop digging. That is rule number one. It makes…

Mr. Chairman, to me, the reason that the budget functions were removed from the budget process as part of the base bill probably makes the most sense, to me, of just about any of the provisions. And the reason is because, as a new Member…

I happened to think that was a fairly ingenious idea, because then the numbers would connect. Now, having said that, I can see the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) and the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) about ready to come out of…