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Democrats claim that the Republican majority is trying to ram through Medicare reform. This is not true. Since April, this Congress has conducted 36 hearings on saving Medicare, and our Members have met with thousands of constituents at…
I think we should give credit where credit is due, and that is to Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, tax cuts and lower deficits go hand in hand. Tax cuts of 1981 resulted in huge increases in Federal revenue. The…
I hope, in closing, that all the viewers, all those who are back in Illinois, will recognize the very high esteem, and particularly the family of Ed Madigan and Evelyn Madigan, will recognize the very high esteem in which he was held by…
Ladies and gentleman of the House, the reason we are here tonight on this amendment is because we forced through this House a retroactive tax increase last year. We would not probably be having this amendment today if you had not trampled…
Yesterday the people in the Sixth District of Oklahoma elected a Republican to represent them in Congress in a district that has a heavy Democrat registration. I wonder if the Democratic leadership in this House has any idea what the…
I want everyone to know that there certainly is a disagreement among the Illinois delegation about the wiseness of the candidate in Illinois who wants to raise taxes. Also, there is a strong disagreement on the balanced budget amendment…
Because I think of our budget as a whole in this country and we have to look at it as a whole. When we start piecemealing it, that is when we get into trouble.
If we do not address the budgetary problems of this country as a whole, taking Social Security off budget will not do it. We will not have the funds for Social Security in a few years; that is the point. And yet you tell people, senior…
I understand under the budget of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], the Republican initiative, that he assumes that there is going to be a 50-percent reduction in the special tax preference for ethanol, is that correct?
Amending the Constitution is no small affair. But then again, neither is our national debt. Eliminating this enormous deficit requires drastic action. Even something as drastic as amending the Constitution. Mr. Speaker, I urge every single…
Mr. Speaker, I do not normally suggest that we amend our Constitution, but it is simply time to adopt a balanced budget amendment. It is time that the Congress kicked the addictive habit of deficit spending and do what every hard-working…
President Clinton's new health plan will spawn 105 new bureaucracies, expand 40 more existing bureaucracies, crush the American people with scores of new tax burdens, and promote more than 100 new regulations to muddle an already fuzzy…
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