Todd Tiahrt

Yesterday Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole became a private citizen. He left us in Congress a legacy of integrity, honesty and character. Character is something that you develop when no one is around, as Senator Dole did in his…

I rise in opposition to the Young amendment. Now is the time to improve this 1978 law. The children of Native American descent who are harmed by overbroad application of the Indian Child Welfare Act can not lobby, they can not write…

Our economy is flat. Many experts say that we are bordering on recession. I think the Clinton administration should shoulder the blame. The union workers remember that President Clinton signed both NAFTA and GATT into law and both…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Yesterday was a triumph for the American people and the House of Representatives. We accomplished something that has been rarely accomplished in the past. We kept our promises that we made to the American people. Working with a bipartisan…