Jerry Moran

Well, you ask a very good question, Mr. Skaggs. I do not know why we are here trying to save them from themselves, which is what we are doing, but the reality is that virtually no tax reform measures could have been enacted if we had not…

Not only have they this year, that is absolutely true, and that is why the Committee on Rules acknowledged that when it waived the three-fifths rule. So it would not apply to any of the tax legislation that has come before us this year…

I agree it would offend mine, too. We would hasten to add all of those States are very ably served by their Senators. Here we are not talking about personalities, we are talking about the Constitution. We are trying to go back to the…

Just to underscore the point that the gentleman from Massachusetts made, we have had so many proposals that would have required an offset in the revenue code to do the right thing. In most cases people recommend ways to reduce taxes…

I cannot really find anything other than purely appeasing those in our economy who simply do not like to pay taxes and that some Members would pander to and put their interests ahead of the national interest. But the reality is that, if we…

Two words might be applicable here, and that is hypocrisy and cynicism. Certainly it is the height of hypocrisy to pass a rule at the beginning of a game, as we did on the very first legislative day of this session of Congress back in…

Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, we are at a crossroads in world history, really, and we find ourselves with tremendous responsibility on our shoulders. The whole rest of the world looks to us as the single superpower to lead them to a…

Mr. Speaker, from a political standpoint, this makes compelling sense, but from a substantive foreign policy standpoint, it is nonsense. Mr. Speaker, this is not the way we won the cold war. This is not the way we tore down the Iron…

yesterday about two dozen Republican Members of the House Government Operations Committee told the former members of the travel office how mortified they were, how terrible they felt that they had lost their jobs. Of course, all of them…

If we are at a surplus and we can afford to, we can go ahead and do it. We cannot now. That is why we are in the situation we are in now. It was President Reagan's tax cut in 1981 that created the debt that we are burdened with. That is…

I can understand why all the Members of this body would like to go on recess. It has been along, frustrating year. Virtually nothing has been accomplished, with all the rhetoric and all, lots of attention. But we ought not go home until we…

I understand that, I say to the gentleman that I do not think that is the problem. That is why I am going to vote for this resolution, because the issue is not a 7-year balanced budget; the issue is how you get there, whether you cut taxes…

Yesterday we ended the first session of the Republican revolutionary Congress. We heard from a lot of folks that are typical of revolutionaries, full of self-righteous zeal, people who firmly believe that the end justifies the means…

the fact is that while Meals on Wheels are being delivered now, they will not if we do not pass the Dole continuing spending bill. Mr. Speaker, politics is the art of compromise. Politics should not be the tactics of terrorism. Terrorism…

I do not think any President could in good conscience, knowing that it only takes $90 billion to make the Medicare Program solvent, cut the Medicare Program by $270 billion so that you can take $180 billion and pay it out in tax cut for…

Let me make the second point that I wanted to make with regard to the integrity of this House. When this House voted to go on vacation and leave the Government shut down, I think that went directly to the integrity of this House. Now we…

The fact is that what we are doing is punishing Federal employees, and that is the point we want to make. The Congress is not punishing the President, it is not punishing ourselves. We are punishing innocent Federal employees, public civil…

We took action to go on vacation when that was the case. We have an opportunity to rectify it. I think it is consistent with the integrity of this House to rectify it now.

I cannot imagine anything that goes more directly to the integrity of this House and the issues for which we are responsible than to act in a constructive way when we understand that the American public is shut out of its Government and…

Blood in the patient. The patient is going to die unless you close up the wound. Ninety billion dollars will only get you past the next election. It will not save Medicare from bankruptcy and protect it for the next generation. Our goal is…

Mr. Chairman, despite my high regard for the ranking Democrat on this committee and what I know to be her intent, and from her perspective improving this bill, I think it is only the responsible thing to do to put on the record how the…

The bottom line is that the White House opposes this amendment and supports the bill. I will conclude with the point that I know, because I have spoken with the White House, that the White House does not support this amendment. It opposes…

let me just say, I agree with the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Harman] that the statement of administration policy in the letter that we have could be clearer, but clearly it is authentic, because it is obvious that is written by…

do you think for a moment that if men could get pregnant that we would be spending a moment here to discuss whether our men in the military would have the right to use their own money to go to military hospitals to have one of the most…

this amendment simply earmarks an additional $1.9 million within the Office of the Director of NIH for the Office of Alternative Medicine. It does not increase the budget. In fact, as I say, this is unallocated money, but I think it is…