Donald Manzullo

I understand, but it is our job to stop bureaucracies from being wasteful here in Washington. It is the jobs of the folks back home to stop bureaucracies there. But it is also our job to make sure we do not have any more of these unfunded…

I do not come from the city of Chicago, and I do not claim any of the Illinois politics. All I know is that every additional dollar that goes back to the school district in my school district, not one more cent goes to a bureaucrat. They…

Is the gentleman saying that money is spent more wisely in Washington than locally back home?

Back in those days the main income for the United States was international tariffs. We have these incredible tariff barriers, and that is how we supported the economy of the Nation before the income tax. I mean nobody wants those tariffs…

And You know what is amazing about this is that Mr. Babbitt, claiming to be a conservationist, would want to try to do everything possible to encourage the wisest use possible of our natural resources and to encourage people to feed the…

And would the gentleman comment on whether or not the new Clinton tax would impact birds that decided to be hygienic and take a bath?

Reclaiming my time, would birdseed for robins and birds that are not considered to be wild, would that be taxed? Perhaps the tax would be based upon the tax people would have to come to your backyard and determine which birds were eating…

So if a Swiss army knife has a spoon on it or a fork, that would be taxed, but a smaller Swiss army knife would not be taxed.

What happens during the month of July and August is that the average American decides to go on vacation.

I would state an inquiry to the comments of the distinguished gentleman from Texas [Mr. Wilson], that in an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times about 3 weeks ago, China has asked several countries, excluding…

Let me state this again. I think it is fiscally inappropriate for the U.S. Congress to reduce the subsidy appropriation of an agency by 2.5 percent, and yet increase the salaries of bureaucrats by 4.2 percent. All my amendment says is very…

I think we can cut bureaucrats at Eximbank and the organization can function just as well.

I am not punishing, Mr. Chairman. All I am saying to the gentleman, why should the Eximbank administrative account have an increase when all other agencies, including social service agencies, are having decreases?

How many agencies is the gentleman aware of that have had an actual increase in administrative expenses besides border patrol?

I would just state that the purpose of my amendment is to reduce the administrative expenses by the same percentage as the reduction in the subsidy appropriation; that is all we are doing, because we are asked to decrease the subsidy…

This is what this is about. We are talking about the largest public works project in the world. If the Members who are in their offices watching this debate on this amendment want to be consistent on MFN, what they ought to do is vote for…

It is my understanding, I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois, that Exim's refusal to get involved in financing with several companies could cost this country tens of thousands of highly skilled and highly paid jobs.

There is a chapter that normally appears in every budget called the generational forecast. It has not been in the last couple of budgets. That states because of the $5 trillion national debt, unless something is dramatically done, the…

If by January 26 the President of the United States submits a balanced budget in 7 years, scored by the neutral Congressional Budget Office, then we will agree to open up the entire Government 100 percent. Mr. Speaker, that means at that…

Our colleague, Congressman Weldon, is in your freshman class from Florida, was quoted in the Washington Times about a conversation he had with a constituent. This constituent was talking to some young people, and recalled the following…

I said, now, you tell me to my face that that is going to keep somebody from enrolling at your school. And he couldn't answer that question. And I said, what the Republicans are trying to do is to save that college trust fund so there is…

That is just the interest on the national debt, not the total amount of the debt.

The amendment I offer brings to focus a terrible unfunded mandate that has come as a result of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. That states as follows: ``In any area that has been nominated to be a severe or extreme ozone…

The issue here is very simple. As I understand the Johnson-Duncan amendment, it simply says that if a school receives Federal funds that it should, as part of its tutorial role, ensure that students have the full range of constitutional…

And my understanding of the amendment that is offered by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Sam Johnson] and the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Duncan] is the schools would have a ready forum in the event a question arises, so instead of being…