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I think that the Dole campaign is going to be very pleased with all of the support he is getting from across the aisle in the Democrat Party. I hope they will attend the fundraisers and help Senator Dole gain the Presidency of the United…
I think each one of us have furloughed Federal workers in our districts. I have 1,038 in my district. However, 940 of them would be working had the President not vetoed legislation that would have funded their departments. On November 20…
I recently went to Bosnia to visit the area where our troops will be located in Sarajevo and other places. I also stopped by in Germany to see the First Armor Division before they left. I went along with many others from this body, about…
I want to talk about a credibility gap and a short history lesson. Many remember last spring, right here on the floor of the House, they talked about nutrition programs, and how the Republicans were going to slash nutrition programs and…
If we can wrap this up this evening, I would like to say in plain English, we finally have a specific plan that will preserve and protect Medicare for our parents and our grandparents. It is a realistic plan, it is up front, there is no…
One question I would like to approach the group with, I heard the charge earlier in the previous hour the savings we are going to get from the provisions we have to preserve and protect Medicare are going to go toward tax cuts for the…
the Republican Party has come up with a plan, a specific plan, that will preserve and protect Medicare for our parents and our grandparents. What is wonderful about this plan is that it will still balance the budget, which will secure a…
So they are, in fact, using the tax dollars from people, in my case, the fourth district of Kansas, and they are trying to disrupt the plans to preserve and protect Medicare. So that is kind of like trying to push the system into…
reclaiming my time, it is a question of priorities, which I think is what the gentlewoman did say here. Even in our rural areas we have the information network of Kansas, where we have tied together through electronic means the school…
this weekend I spoke with my parents, and they are very concerned about the bickering that is going on over Medicare. This morning, in honor of the World War II veterans, we heard Senator Inouye ask that we work together to attack our…
Medicare is going broke by 2002, according to the President's board of trustees. If there is no balanced budget, if the budget was already balanced, and if no reduction in taxes were going to occur, Medicare is still going broke by 2002…
Medicare is a 1965 Blue Cross/Blue Shield program that was started by Lyndon Baines Johnson and is frozen in time. According to the President's board of trustees, it is going broke by 2002 and it does not matter if we had a balanced budget…
I stand in support of the Istook-McIntosh- Ehrlich grant reform amendment. This amendment in the Labor-HHS- Education appropriations bill would put a stop to the Federal Government subsidizing political advocacy groups. We want to stop the…
In this amendment I seek to restore the appropriation to the level authorized by the Committee on Science. The chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Ohio, in the House budget resolution had set the fossil energy program at $150…
What really is kind of bothering me about this is it is being charged not to just this budget but also to the future. We are borrowing this money. We are going to go out and borrow this money. On July 4, I had a nephew born, Keenan Tiahrt…
I wanted to note, I want you to know this goes beyond just the travel budget. We have instances pointed out by Vice President Gore in his National Performance Review that the Department of Energy, in their environmental management area…
once again we are experiencing a historical day. Today the House Committee on the Budget will submit a plan to balance the budget by 2002. It is the only plan around today to balance the budget, and it has been since 1968 that the Federal…
today is a great day on the Potomac. This is the Contract With America, and even though a New York newspaper tells us only 38 percent of the people know what the Contract With America is, all of them know what a balanced-budget amendment…
today as we consider the tax relief bill, I urge my colleagues and the American people to keep in mind what this debate is really about. Republicans want to cut taxes. The big-government party wants to raise taxes. From now on, only a few…
today marks a dramatic change in the way Washington sets policy, and the way Congress does business. We have begun discussing a truly revolutionary tax bill. I would like to share with you why this bill, H.R. 1215 the tax relief bill is so…
this week we are going to see a clash of ideas once again as we have seen throughout the 100 days. This time it is going to be the big-government party that likes to take tax dollars and spend it at their whim versus the party of the…
I remember during the 1992 Presidential campaign when Bill Clinton promised he would balance the budget in 5 years. As the campaign wore on, he said ``We will just cut it in half.'' Now, however, the President has decided to throw in the…
today's headlines in Congress Daily read, ``Clinton Budget Hikes Deficit More Than Expected.'' That says it all. Of course, this article proves what we have believed about the Clinton budget and verifies why he campaigned against the…
today we are going to address H.R. 956, common sense product liability reform. In the last 40 years we have passed one product liability reform bill. What has it done? It was passed for single-engine aircraft. And in the Fourth District of…
I just want to speak in support of this, Mr. Chairman, because of the impact that has happened in my district, because of the statute of repose or the produce liability for airplanes. In Independence, KS, in April, we are going to break…
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