Mark Souder

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…

Last year we even had a debate here on the House floor because there was a proposal that in the private pension programs from business, to lower the percent of, I think it was 145 percent down to 125 percent. Some of us had grave…

The reason there is a surplus is because there are more people paying in now, but we are headed to a point down the road here where there is not going to be enough money and we will have a big shortfall.

I believe every business that can pay more should absolutely pay more. There are many small businesses that are closed that used to pay less, and they cannot make it. That is really what I am talking about. I would have liked to have seen…

I believe that in actuality that the increase in the minimum wage will hurt those who least can afford to be hurt. I know in inner-city Fort Wayne we have been trying to get a grocery store to relocate back there. We lost all the major…

I am not necessarily known as ``Mr. Internationalist.'' In fact, I authored with the gentleman from New Hampshire [Mr. Zeliff] an amendment that said unless Mexico worked harder in this effort, that we were going to cut off funding and…

I also read, in response to the gentleman from California [Mr. Horn], some questions that were in a Federal HHS survey that asked ``Have you ever had sexual intercourse? How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time…

The HHS questionnaire, which I did not get into detail, had similar questions on how many people did you have sexual intercourse with? This is a middle school survey. During your life how many people have you had sexual intercourse with…

I am an elected Member of Congress. I do not appreciate that I have been hearing, in 'Dear Colleagues,' in the Rules Committee and on the floor that it was a staff-directed request. I had a survey problem in my district as I will bring…

I am most concerned that most of the agreements that are made wind up with tax increases because the spending cuts are not real. Is it possible to give another possibility of how this could evolve? While I think the tax increases could be…