Mark Souder

It depends on how you define the Great Lakes. As a police Midwesterner, those are big lakes to us.

I have found few things as ridiculous since I have been elected to Congress in 1994 as the headline that I saw last week in the Washington Times, repeated in various publications around the country in different ways. That headline says…

And then after, in effect, deciding for us that without a vote that we were going to pay for the election, they were overseeing the election that they now say is corrupt?

Reclaiming my time, I guess it kind of counters the point that the gentleman from Arizona was making earlier about the balance of trade. We were getting money in illegal contributions, but we were taking taxpayer dollars to pay for…

it is actually hilarious to listen to the President threaten to call us into session to investigate campaign finance reform. Maybe for 1 day we can investigate his friends who are in jail, 1 day we can investigate his friends who have been…

This amendment simply transfers the $3 million from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and increases the Inspector General's office at the Justice Department by $2 million to provide adequate resources for a thorough investigation…

It is a question of who is going to make the decision regarding our children's education. Is it going to be parents, local school boards, teachers, and the State, or is it going to be the Federal Government? It is not a question of where…

I attempted to offer an amendment to transfer funds from Goals 2000 over to breast cancer and we found out, much to all of our surprise to some degree, that the National Cancer Institute is not authorized. We went through a debate on what…

I would like to make a number of points. One is that we can explain the different categories logically. For example, shopping centers do not mean the sales of all the units inside the shopping center; it means the sales that are controlled…

Whether or not, and we can discuss whether State institutions move it to the local level. Let us assume for purposes of debate that we are moving it to the States for neglected children. We attempted in earlier amendments in title I to…

I do not think parents want to trust us with setting the standards out of here with all the dealmaking that occurs and with all the ability of different lobbying groups to influence it disproportionately here in Washington.

It says institutions in the States. It does not necessarily say State institutions.

I will always be pleased to be confused with the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Bob Schaffer. I am proud of my vote the last time, so I stand here saying that the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] has worked with us on a number of points…

I was not maintaining it went to local educational institutions. It went to try to educate people at the local level who are in institutions for juveniles. What I am arguing is that we cannot just say everybody in school is the problem. We…

to reiterate this point, because we heard this last night, this is what Mr. Dear wants to have OSHA go to. We are not trying to wipe out the agency. He wants to move to working more toward businesses. We started that process and we are…

as we go through this process we understand we are going to spend more money. Now, the question is, Will it be in new programs or old programs, and what will the priorities be within this? That is what we are attempting to do here. It is…

I would like to explain the content and purpose of this amendment, which I strongly support. This would increase OSHA's Compliance Assistance Program by 50 percent, $23 million over the recommended amount of $45 million. Compliance…

the Compliance Assistance Program, which I realize is only part of all the compliance efforts, is $45 million and it was $30 million, or roughly $34 million prior to the $11 million increase. So the increases sound larger, but, in fact…

Members do not like tough votes but that is in fact what a budget is. As we go through this appropriations process, we are going to have to make some priorities. This vote is do you want to increase spending for OSHA? Or do you want to…

I believe the answer to my first question is ``no'', we cannot offer any Defense amendments. I too praise the efforts of the gentleman from Illinois for special education. At the local level, it will probably take between $1 and $2 billion…

The simple fact that the U.S. Capitol Police would not let the Christian Action Network display this art proves Mr. Mawyer's point that the National Endowment for the Arts is using taxpayer money to pay for obscenity and to support people…

I think that we have been talking a lot about the importance of this to middle class families. We have been talking about the importance of this to what would be seen as kind of main line American families. But I have been very impressed…

People on welfare currently can get a package of benefits, depending on their mix of kids, about $15,000. When they take a job, under the new welfare bill, should the benefits that they are continuing to receive, because we have decided…

One time one parent had their son tell me what he had been taught was the difference between Republicans and Democrats; and that is that Republicans believe in big people and little government, and Democrats believe in big government and…

Well, I wanted to put into the Record a number of the things the Speaker said last night, because many of these overlap with what we are talking about here on taxes and providing economic opportunity. He raised some questions that go…