In fact, the IRS had entered into some type of an agreement with a dentist in downstate Illinois that said he would have to be on the accrual method. We got wind of this and worked with a couple of organizations. I actually sat down with…

About $29 million in purchases, of which only about $4 million was domestic and the rest was procured overseas. We have succeeded to a large part in stopping the overseas procurement, but the gentlewoman had mentioned to me something to…

I also note that the bill would require the Office of Management and Budget place the information on small business paperwork burdens on the Internet. I agree that this would make the information more accessible. However, I believe more…

these OSHA regulations are very interesting. First of all, they do not apply to any Federal employees, and I would like to point out that one of the charts using the explanations here is that it is dangerous if you move your wrist more…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4944 makes a technical correction to the Export Working Capital Guarantee Program of the Small Business Administration. The export working capital program provides a 90 percent guarantee for revolving capital needs…

Shane and Penny Fox were married in 1997. Shane is a graphic designer for a charity, and Penny is a legal secretary. In 1997, their taxable income was $47,000. When they went to file their joint income tax return as required by law, they…

I met Bill and Mary Cross and Richard and Judy Beuth in Northern Illinois. They are the 2 percent. They get up early, they work all day, just to put food on the table of Americans. They are only 2 percent; and, therefore, if we follow the…

last March, I introduced a miscellaneous tariff correction bill (H.R. 3715) to help keep the remaining cathode ray tube and computer display screen manufacturers in the United States. After careful review by the Administration and the Ways…

it is my pleasure that the House has had its invocation given by the Reverend Mark Teslik of Rockford, Illinois. He is here with his wife, Annette, and son Tom, who are in the gallery just in front of me. Mark was an Eagle Scout. He was an…

Mr. Chairman, the issue here has to be addressed in terms of priorities. The operation of the Patent Office is one of the few constitutional functions to which this body addresses itself. It is nice to have these cultural exchanges. As a…

I was there when the auctioneer's gavel fell and sold half of the family farm of a couple that I represented in Ogle County, Illinois, as their kids sat there and went. Let us not talk about the Bill Gates and the Steve Forbes, let us talk…

It is amazing, Mr. Speaker, how the people on the other side of the aisle can continue to come forth with such statements that Republicans are cruel to children. Most of these education programs are actually being increased in spending, so…

I do not represent companies. I do not represent unions. I represent people. As with any legislation, I ask what does this vote on Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for China mean to the people I represent back home? Workers and…

Amendment No. 6 offered by Mr. Manzullo: At the end of the bill, add the following new section: Sec. 341. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no funds may be made available to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation…

we have been there either in person or witnessed it on television, people silently and slowly walking by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in contemplation of the sacrifices made for this Nation, some tracing on paper names embedded in stone…

this legislation will for the first time focus the attention of the U.S. government on a comprehensive trade strategy towards Africa. We have neglected this continent too long only to the benefit of their former European colonial powers…

Rockford, Illinois, lost a giant in industry this past week with the death of Edson Ingersoll Gaylord, leaving his wife, Jane, and children, Charles, Will, Susan, Mary, and John. Edson Gaylord, one of the last of the manufacturing giants…

this debate is not about the Congress, and it is not about the President of the United States. This debate is about Gene Wilmarth from Leaf River, Illinois. Gene has to go out and pay more interest on his note to buy cattle, and he has got…

there are 65,000 couples in the congressional district that I represent who are married and who are paying a total of $91 million per year as a fine simply because they are married and working. That is indefensible. I cannot see how any…

I rise in general support of this bill, H.R. 2005, because I represent a congressional district that has many durable good manufacturers. There is an issue of state preemption, and to that issue, I have been given assurance of leadership…

these past 2 days have been perhaps the most challenging in my life as a United States Congressman. I, first of all, want to thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Chairman Coble) for his patience, his understanding, his wisdom, and his…

a small business exporter of wireless telecommunications equipment from Torrance, California, had never sold to Vietnam. Telemobile's Japanese, French, and Canadian competitors all had the support of their home government's export credit…

Based upon the gentleman's assertions that he is willing to continue discussing this figure of $750,000 increased to $1 million, I would still be opposed to the bill, I will vote ``no'' on an oral vote but not call for a recorded vote.

we have OPIC because there is no private sector that can fill that gap. Lloyds of London, nobody could come in and fill that gap. In fact, OPIC has been partnering with Lloyds of London on being able to come up to a relationship whereby…

NATO is the alter ego of the United States. Whatever NATO does, it means the United States does, and what have we done? Milosevic is still in power, close to 200 schools in Serbia have been destroyed, a half-dozen bridges across the…