May 27, 2010
Every day it becomes more and more difficult to create and keep jobs here in America. We've got the best aerospace workers in the world. But over the last few years, 65,000 aerospace jobs have left America and migrated to France. The…
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by number of sources- Mr. Chairman I offer an amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Amendment offered by Mr. Tiahrt: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. 536. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to promulgate regulations without consideration of the effect of such regulations on the competitiveness of American businesses.5 sources2005govinfo.gov
- any excuse is a good excuse if you do not want to do something. There are some here in Congress that would use any excuse to vote against tax relief for working Americans. Let us look at the capital gains tax relief. One popular excuse is it is only for the rich. Yet the IRS tells us that nearly three out of four that will benefit from this make less than $75,000 a year. Economists tell us that it will not cost anything, it will not reduce the Federal revenue; in fact, it will increase the Federal revenue. And let us look at the $500 per child tax relief. Some will say you do not deserve it if you make more than $40,000 per year. I guess if you make more than $40,000, they think you are rich and you should not control more of your own money, so they would vote against any tax relief. There are those that think working Americans do not deserve tax relief today. But remember, any excuse is a good excuse if you do not want to do something.3 sources1997govinfo.gov
- with solemn thought and a certain sadness we are brought together to speak of removing the President of our United States2 sources1997congress.gov
- Washington is broken and it needs to be changed. This rule is poorly devised and the underlying bill is poorly conceived. This bill did not go through the committee process, it is unprecedented and it violates the intent of the rules of the House. Why is this important? Well, the American people would not allow the Democrat leadership to cancel the next election. The American people would not allow one person to determine who our next President is going to be; but on a smaller scale, that is exactly what has happened on this bill. The Speaker of the House has determined what is in this bill, not the appropriate committee. An election was cancelled. There was no vote. The representatives of the people did not have a voice in this process. We did not have any committee hearings. This is not the democratic process. Washington is broken and it needs to be changed. The rule accepts this violation of our own House rules, that's why I ask my colleagues to vote 'no' on this rule because Washington is broken and it needs to be changed.2 sources2008govinfo.gov
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May 19, 2010
First of all, Madam Speaker, I would like to thank Dennis Moore for his leadership in this legislation. He has always sought during his career in Congress to find bipartisan legislation that we could work together on. I appreciate and also…
Mar 25, 2010
Mr. Speaker, this rule should be withdrawn. The Senate bill is now law, and it's the greatest intrusion into our private lives that we have seen under this Congress. It's going to hurt our economy, it's going to cost us jobs. Plus, there…
Mar 24, 2010
The point I want to make about creating a strong economy to pay for these new government jobs at the Federal and State level, we have to do things to provide opportunity in our economy. The way you do that is you enhance the process of…
Mar 24, 2010
I would argue that of the $655 billion that we've already had to borrow, you're taking some of that money and applying it to this program so, again, borrowing money from the Chinese.
Mar 24, 2010
Well, I guess I'm entitled to my new math today. I would like to make the point that these summer jobs, or these temporary youth jobs that are paid for by tax dollars don't create permanent jobs. Wichita State University did a study of…
Mar 24, 2010
There's no doubt that unemployment remains a problem; but the majority, for some reason, thinks we need to borrow another $600 million to subsidize summer jobs for kids. But, you know, there's a lot of money already available. Out of the…
Mar 20, 2010
I was just on the steps of the Capitol speaking to a Cold War veteran who served this country admirably and then went to serve the Fire Department in the State of Mississippi. He has driven all the way from Mississippi to Washington, D.C…
Mar 20, 2010
It was that the folks who were on TRICARE under the age of 65 and retired would get moved out of TRICARE into the government-determined plan.
Mar 17, 2010
This is National Ag Week, and I want to express my support and appreciation for our Nation's farmers and ranchers, especially those from my home State of Kansas. Kansas farmers produce more than 350 million bushels of wheat, 200 million…
Mar 16, 2010
The Democrat claims that the Obama health care bill will reduce the debt and help balance the budget, but reviewing those calculations shows that they're going to collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only 6 years…
Feb 13, 2009
Today, another Kansan is going to get laid off, and they will struggle to pay their bills. Our economy needs help and our people need help. But this bill isn't help. This bill will only place a drag on our economy because it does nothing…
Jan 9, 2009
today we debate a bill with a good title that fails to make one single step toward the purported goal. H.R. 12, the Paycheck Fairness Act, is being advanced as a bill to protect women from wage discrimination, but this bill is really about…
Jun 17, 2008
the Interior approps bill will be in the full committee tomorrow and is, on balance, a very good bill. Chairman Dicks has done a thorough job, with many hearings, and has been very fair in looking at the various elements of the bill. But…
Jun 5, 2008
Gas is over $4 a gallon and people are upset. According to a May 20 Gallup poll, 57 percent of Americans support drilling in U.S. coastal and wilderness areas that are now off-limits. The tide is turning. Americans know we can solve this…
May 15, 2008
Washington is broken and it needs to be changed. This rule is poorly devised and the underlying bill is poorly conceived. This bill did not go through the committee process, it is unprecedented and it violates the intent of the rules of…
May 15, 2008
I rise today to protest the Democrat Leadership's dictatorial tactics. Our Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, created a system of government by which the people's voice would be heard in legislative decisions, especially those…
May 6, 2008
I thank the Speaker. Mr. Speaker, they say that in America all you need to do to be successful is to work a half a day, and you can choose whether it's the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours. The American people probably expect double…
Apr 1, 2008
Americans are outraged by the Air Force outsourcing our national security to the French. This contract award to a foreign manufacturer is wrong, and it makes us less, not more, secure. We should have known that we had a problem when the…
Apr 1, 2008
Another thing Congress must consider in this whole scenario is, looking back over history and saying, when we do have a difference of opinion between our European allies and our own country and we employ our young men and women to carry…
Mar 5, 2008
I am outraged tonight that we are outsourcing our national security. Today, in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, we heard testimony that the Department of Defense has modified the Buy American Act with a memorandum of…
Mar 4, 2008
we should all be deeply troubled by last week's decision by the Air Force to choose a French-built air refueling tanker. The European Aeronautics Defense and Space Team, known as EADS, found a front American company, Northrup Grumman, to…
Feb 13, 2008
Mr. Speaker, last summer, one of my constituents, Randy Cabral, president of the Kansas Braille Transcript Institute, e-mailed me with an idea, to place an American Braille flag at Arlington National Cemetery. Today, we see the fruition of…
Feb 12, 2008
Mr. Speaker, I am also honored to have to carry this bill. And, today, Congress has the honor to approve the bill, naming the post office in Derby, Kansas, after a true American hero, SGT Jamie O'Dell Maugans. Sergeant Maugans was the…
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