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I will give the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] an opportunity not to re-spend the cut from the space station later this year on social welfare programs, but to put it to the deficit. That is a program that is tens of billions of…
I rise in support of the Murtha amendment. This amendment is essentially the same as one that I had printed in the Congressional Record that I had intended to offer. However, my amendment was not made in order. While I do not support many…
it has been said before that when you have facts on your side, you pound on the facts. When you have the law on your side, you pound on the law. When you have neither, you pound on the podium. We have heard a lot of Republicans pounding on…
Yesterday Alan Greenspan testified before Congress and said that the dollar plunged to historic lows due in large part to the Federal budget deficit. We in the House passed a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. We need to make…
I would like to thank him, he was not on the floor when I rose 2 weeks ago to thank him for his cooperation on getting not just Members with their families but staffs with their families on Valentine's Day. Certainly the majority leader…
Finally, a question to the majority leader. Many of us know that there are very, very difficult sessions ahead. We know that the Republicans are on a 100-day schedule for the contract. But after the first 100 days very difficult decisions…
the Republican meat ax has fallen once again and this time not just on chicken and meat but on tomatoes, on beans, on carrots, on milk, and on orange juice. The latest target is the school lunch and breakfast program. Now some of them are…
It opens up all these possibilities by mandating to the President that he has to expand NATO and he has to look at providing foreign aid and disarmament aid to these qualifying countries. I would also argue to my colleagues that in reading…
I would encourage especially the new freshmen of this body to read this title, pages 61 through 75. All the amendment that the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Torricelli] and I have offered would do is say that the President may establish…
Second, title VI of the bill says that we want to expand NATO to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, provide additional economic support assistance, nonproliferation and disarmament assistance. Where does it say that in the…
I rise as a Democrat who has worked very hard for the last 4 years to balance the budget and continue to make that one of my highest priorities in this body. So oftentimes over the last 4 years, balancing the budget has been like trying to…
The bill can be described as a blank check policy. It can be described as saying putting the contract and everything else before the horse and saying we are not sure how much this is going to cost, it might be $5 billion, it might be $8…
I just want to rise and commend the majority and particularly the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey]. He and I have risen to engage in a colloquy the last couple weeks to talk about a family-friendly schedule and, in particular, to talk…
The gentleman and I had an interesting conversation last week on the family friendly agenda, and he told me that he had a date last Friday with his lovely wife Susan. I hope the gentleman made that date and had a great time, and I hope…
Mr. Chairman, I cannot help, in listening to the debate, but be reminded of a great line from a great movie which happens to take place in a prison. The name of the movie is ``Cool Hand Luke.'' He is incarcerated in prison, and the warden…
I rise as a cosponsor with my colleague, the gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms. Pryce] to address a serious concern facing single-parent households and dual-income families, finding affordable, safe, and educational child care. The Child Care…
Mr. Chairman, there have been a lot of pundits that have been talking already about what the 1994 November elections meant. And some people have been saying that they were an endorsement of the contract and some people have been saying…
We have a program in place that we do not want to see hurt by this legislation. I think we may want to see improvements in it. And if we cannot implement those improvements, we may want to work more with the State and local governments to…
first of all, I would just like to say that the intention of this amendment, which would exempt children's immunizations from the legislation that we are considering here, given the special circumstances that we have a Federal program…
yesterday Speaker Gingrich said that he wanted to start a new idea in the House of Representatives and call it ``Correction Day.'' He said to the American Hospital Association that he wants to start 1 day a month where Congress can act on…
I believe in his very first speech to this body, in his eloquent words, Speaker Gingrich talked about bringing a Russian delegation to the floor of the House, and he was very moved by the words of one of those Russians who said, ``This is…
I am happy with the gentleman's cooperative spirit here, but would say he is willing to tackle the committee staff reductions, and I applaud that and will vote for that, but we should also tackle the personal staff issue. For Members like…
I rise in support of the Hamilton amendment for three reasons. But I also have a great deal of respect for the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McCloskey], who has been so knowledgeable and has so much passion on this issue and has visited the…
if you were investing in the stock market and you could invest in the space station, two of the things that you would evaluate would be, on the one hand, the track record, the past, and, on the other hand, the future prospects. The track…
I would like to begin by rising and thanking a number of people who are responsible for maybe one of the wisest and smartest investments that we will make in our Nation's children in this session of Congress. This is smart and wise because…
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