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lend me your ear. Uncle Sam's tax bite has gotten so overbearing that not even Mike Tyson could defend himself. Taxpayers everywhere are so outraged that some are calling it the Mike Tyson tax bite. Hard-bitten taxpayers who call up the…
I believe that we are all aware that we need to balance the Federal budget, and the reason it is no longer being argued is because the Republican Party heard the cries of the American public who said we must balance the Federal budget. It…
I think we should let middle-income families keep a little more of what is already theirs, their hard-earned money, and that tax relief package that was passed by Congress was designed exactly for the middle class. My mind keeps going back…
one way to think about our tax policy is to consider two opposite cases. Under a tax regime that took every penny of what you earned, that would certainly be considered tyranny. Under a tax regime that allowed you freedom to do whatever…
few issues are more closely linked to the idea of freedom than the issue of taxation. If America is to remain the land of opportunity, it can only be so if the people are free, free from a government that stands in the way of Americans…
I appreciate the opportunity because I have kind of a unique perspective. I am probably the only Member in Congress, I believe I am the only Member in Congress, that actually came out of aerospace, and I worked on some of the…
In January of 1995, when the three of us were sworn in in the 104th Congress, the projected budget that we were looking at from the administration said we would have a $200 billion deficit in fiscal year 1996. And it pretty much continued…
in conclusion, when Thomas Jefferson sent Merriwether Lewis and William Clark off to the great Northwest, he had a great deal of hope for the future of this country. He saw it growing and prospering. Now, as we stand here in 1997, on the…
About 17 percent of the Federal budget. Well, as that becomes less and less, it will make more money available to pay off more of the Federal debt. So it kind of gains momentum as we go on. As we pay off a portion of the debt, we pay less…
in the present we are enjoying one of the strongest economies we have had for a long time. Our gross domestic product is up. Unemployment is at an all-time low in Wichita, KS, it is approximately 3 percent. We have the stock market setting…
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…
the reason the President vetoed the flood relief bill was because he wants to have the ability to shut the Government down. We put in a provision that said that if we cannot reach an agreement, we will continue Government. We will continue…
the President wants to shut the Government down. The President wants to shut the Government down. That is the reason for his veto on the disaster relief bill. He said it was not a clean bill, that there are riders. Can any of us name a…
I rise today to support a strong wall between abortion and other health-related services. This Congress should do nothing to spend U.S. tax dollars overseas to promote abortion. We as Members of Congress should not help abortionists push…
politics is a funny business. Not too long ago, we were told that we could not balance the budget and cut taxes for working Americans. Well, the surprising thing is that most Americans never believed that nonsense. Most Americans knew that…
here in America we are taxed on the very first cup of coffee we drink in the morning. We are taxed on every gallon of fuel we expend just to get to work. We are taxed when we make a phone call. We are taxed when we buy something on the way…
I know there is some concern, it is a very big decision to move children away from their birth parents into an adoptive situation. I do not think the States should take it lightly or we should take it lightly. But in some situations, as…
In Kansas right now, a family of four making $28,000 a year is eligible to receive benefits from the women and children fund. This is 180,000 people who would receive about $300 per year if they did qualify for the WIC Program. However, if…
I have an amendment that is what I would consider a positive addition to the bill that we have before us. I will explain briefly what the amendment does, and I would like others to have a chance to express their concerns with the bill…
Yesterday was the filing deadline for Federal taxes and State taxes in Kansas. But tax freedom day in Kansas is actually on May 7. That is the day we finally pay our direct Federal, State, and local taxes, our direct taxes. Some think that…
in 1980 the Federal revenue was about $500 billion. We then had the Reagan tax cuts, and by 1990 the Federal revenue was over $1 trillion. It doubled in a decade. Mr. Speaker, if we could double our Federal revenue in the next decade, we…
if my colleagues think the last campaign was too long, too costly and too negative, they ought to be mad. The AFL-CIO started negative political ads in Wichita, KS, last week, 19 months before the next election. Misleading false messages…
last weekend my family and I joined 200-plus Members of this Chamber. We gathered together in Hershey, PA to restore trust and build friendships and, of course, to eat chocolate. Now, obviously there were many friendships and relationships…
the Senate has defeated the balanced budget. We have heard repeatedly from the party of big government, the opponents of the balanced budget, that we do not need to amend the Constitution to balance the budget. We can do it right now. I…
I rise today to honor Beverly Hoover of Wichita, KS. Nominated for the Governor's Arts Award, Beverly Hoover is an arts volunteer extraordinaire. Last year the Wichita Art Museum gave her just that title, volunteer extraordinaire in honor…
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