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I arise today in opposition to H.R. 1304, the Quality Health Care Coalition Act. This may surprise some as I became a cosponsor of this bill last summer. I strongly believe that we need to improve the quality of and access to our nation's…
I rise today to ensure that H.R. 1649, the act to abolish the Department of Energy, does not get pushed behind a copy machine like two highly classified secret hard disk drives were recently. In 1995, I was the leader of the House task…
Some people are having a difficult decision here, and, you know, we are often asked to establish priorities. Sometimes we are asked to decide whether we should fund an after-school program or special education. For some, that is a…
it has been good for education to have Republicans in control. Under the direction of the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Porter), we have improved the important programs; and education has done very well, and Pell Grants is one of those…
I think this amendment is important because we are taking a program that is going to increase. We are not taking away the large portion of the increase. We are still leaving $100 million as an increase in the 21st century learning program…
according to NewsMax.com, the results from the Australian gun ban are in and they are deadly. Just over a year ago, Australia followed in the footsteps of mother country Great Britain and made a law that totally banned handguns. The gun…
I do support advocating for youth, especially disadvantaged youth, and I think we do so through this bill and the priorities that we have established through the job corps and other areas.
Mr. Chairman, I want to just talk a little bit about some of the priorities that we have put in this bill that are very good that address the very needs that my friends on the other side of the aisle are bringing up. But first I want to…
once again we are stressed between a debate over spending the Social Security surplus. This bill that is the result of this rule will protect the Social Security surplus, but one would not know it from the rhetoric. According to the other…
what the unions have been doing is running under the concept of political education activities, these sham ads, as the gentleman referred to as sham ads. What I think is an injustice is number one, this is money that should not be taken…
Well, currently there is a Beck decision which has been supported by the Supreme Court, but it is not enforced by the Clinton administration and yet there is nothing in the legislation of the gentleman that helps us to enforce the Beck…
If it has been against the law for the unions to do this, they have done it in the past, not only in my district, but across the Nation. If it is against the law, then why today are they purchasing time to run these ads against me which…
I would say that these ads have run in the past against me and they will be running very nearly in the future, and I see nothing in the legislation of the gentleman that will prevent them from occurring in the future.
I cannot do that under current campaign limits. I need the ability to raise the money in order to respond to these ads that are supposedly political education ads, but in truth are running to try to undermine my campaign for reelection.
many Americans believe that our campaigns are too long and too negative. Well, my campaign for the Fourth District of Kansas election in 2000 started today. Today, the unions, the Washington union bosses, are purchasing television time to…
there is a philosophical difference between the Congress and the White House. It will be difficult to reach any kind of agreement on the size and scope of government. Republicans want to move in one direction, and the liberals in the White…
Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on H.R. 659 (PATRIOT Act) and ``yes'' on H.R. 1175, authorizing an investigation into the disappearance of Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz and Zvi Feldman.
Mr. Chairman, it is apparent that the Department of Energy has no culture for keeping secrets. They keep secrets about like a sieve holds water. Personally, I think that we should move all nuclear functions from the Department of Energy to…
the recent tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, points to an issue that has gone unaddressed for too long. Too many of our public schools are unsafe, and this is unacceptable. What kind of system is it that allows kids to quote Hitler in the…
tax relief is as good as a pay raise, maybe even better. A pay raise could mean higher taxes. It could result in sending more money to Washington, D.C., and have very little extra money jingling around in our pockets. But tax relief is…
there is confusion in the administration's foreign policy. One hand does not know what the other hand is doing. The first hand has reached into our pockets and spent $8 billion to establish a multi-ethnic country called Bosnia. That is $8…
I believe one would have to be totally out of touch to defend the current tax code. No sane individual, if asked to start from scratch, would come up with the current tax code in a million years. The tax code is baffling even to the…
we have heard this morning that this was a quote, unquote, do-nothing Congress. I think the liberals think that because nothing has happened for the left. I think they must have been hiding under their desk. They did start out wanting to…
Unfortunately, it is the nature of politics that we never get everything we want. But when the American people support a general direction in which we want to go, small victories do become possible. Yesterday's agreement between Congress…
today I want to talk a little bit about what the Republicans have done for education. We have heard a lot about how we were trying to eliminate public education. Nothing could be further from the truth. We want to make strong public…
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