Mr. Speaker, in Louisville, we have a lot to be proud of--the Kentucky Derby, the Louisville Slugger, Muhammad Ali--and now the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Champion Bellarmine Knights. Led by Coach Scott Davenport, the Knights…

One of the things that becomes pretty clear...most of the ideas coming from the Republican side result in some kind of increased shifting of risk to senior citizens.

Mr. Speaker, we are engaged in a process now and over the next week to decide how we are going to fund the government for the next few months and for the next year. Republicans have already decided where they want to put the burden of the…

Mr. Speaker, the richest 1 percent of Americans now control one-third of our Nation's income, 120 percent more than they did 30 years ago. CEOs now earn hundreds of times what the average worker does. Wall Street profits are up 720 percent…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would essentially destroy efforts to put an end to the damage that is wrought by mountaintop removal. Now, many of my colleagues who are not familiar with mountaintop…

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. Speaker, we are involved in probably the most important thing that this body does on a year-to-year basis--figuring out how to spend taxpayers' money. The budget process is more than taking dollars from one place and spending them in…

Madam Chair, I rise today to oppose section 1746 of H.R. 1 and to urge defeat of this bill. In my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and in communities all across the United States, a provision of H.R. 1, section 1746, will effectively ban…

I think the administration has done a terrific job of trying to strike a balance of trying to get our house in order.

It is simply short-sighted to think we can try to balance our budget through cuts in domestic discretionary spending alone.

for the past two years I have opposed the Administration's proposal to repeal the Last In, First Out (LIFO) accounting method for tax purposes.