Ron Lewis

I wish that he would have brought along a wine bottle also because on the side of the wine bottle there is a warning label concerning that person's health. Since the gentleman represents a district where there are grape growers and he…

the 1996 Medicare trustees' report is expected to be released today and all indications are the news will be worse than last year's report--Medicare is going bankrupt faster and sooner than expected. In late April, the Congressional Budget…

back in 1992, candidate Bill Clinton said, I oppose Federal excise gas tax increases. But in 1993, President Clinton enacted the largest tax increase in our Nation's history. And buried in that tax package was a $4.8 billion increase in…

Bill Clinton is no Harry Truman. Mr. Speaker, you would have thought that when the people of this Nation spoke so overwhelmingly for change in 1994 by sending a new majority to Congress, the new minority would have cooperated and yielded…

this past year-and-a-half we have heard a lot of complaining from the liberal Democrats about the new majority in Congress. It has been a continuous chorus of whining and complaining from the liberal extremists, such as the gentleman from…

I just wanted to say in closing tonight that I agree with you, Sonny, 100 percent, that if these men and women are going to be willing, and they are always willing, to serve their country, we need to be willing to meet their needs, to make…

later this week I will be introducing a resolution to honor the men and women in all our Reserve forces, and it will call upon the American people to honor the families of employers and all those who assist reservists in their valuable…

I think as the gentleman mentioned, we see these men and women not just willing to sacrifice themselves to go to war, but they are usually the very people that are willing to help out in any area, in their church, in their community. They…

Reader's Digest recently did a poll that showed that Americans believed that the maximum tax burden a family of four should face is 25 percent. That is what Americans think is a fair tax burden. But reality shows that, today, the total tax…

Since the mid-1960's, the Great Society, billions of dollars thrown at education, and where are our kids today? Where are students today? Has money helped the education in this country coming from the Federal Government? I say no. The SAT…

the committee achieves the reforms needed in dairy policy, just as H.R. 2854 does for all other commodities it affects. Again, dairy farmers are meeting their responsibility in helping to balance the Federal budget, but they need the…

what is the truth about the Government shutdown? The truth is this. The radical liberal left of the House of Representatives have been obstructionists for many, many years and they are continuing it this year, and in this coming year. Mr…

The President not only signed his name to that continuing resolution that the gentleman voted for, I believe, and I voted for to allow Government workers to go back to work, with a promise from the President that he by the end of the year…

This is exactly why we cannot have a good, honest debate. This is why it is hard to put trust and faith in our colleagues when there is rhetoric that is so accusatory. As I said, all evening I sat back here and listened to the gentleman…

I think what we have to look at is where those budgets take us into the future, where we are going to be 10 years from now, 7 years from now, 5 years from now. Those deficits start to return and start taking us toward more debt and…

With all due respect, why now are we hearing from the other side that we need to focus on the balanced budget, get a continuing resolution, move away from the government shutdown, when we did not hear anything from the other side about a…

I think that argument could be used in the other direction that the President is holding us hostage to send him appropriation bills that he would sign. It works in the same way. Are we supposed to, in the House and the Senate, pass…

You know, this is the bottom line: 40 years of tax and spend with no offer of a balanced budget, and we are continuing to hear from the other side that we are extremists, that we are mean- spirited, that, as one gentleman said this…

Madam Speaker, Republicans are not backing down from our commitment to balance the budget, cut taxes, save Medicare, and reform welfare. Unlike our liberal friends across the aisle, we will not abandon Medicare to bankruptcy. We are going…

Well many of the same things that you have been hearing. My constituents are saying, ``We are not concerned that you're going too far. We just don't want you to not go far enough.'' And they want a balanced budget. They want to see a…

It is the family's money, it is the worker out there that produces products, that puts in the time and the hours. It is their money, and we need to give it back to them. I think sometimes the liberals think that when we give tax breaks…

We have had the great society in place for 30 years, the welfare system. There has been $5 trillion spent. There are more people in poverty now than when that started. Five trillion dollars down the drain and more people on welfare, more…

I just wanted to say, it is a new day when this Congress is talking about tax cuts, talking about tax reform. When we look back over the history of this Congress for the last 40 years, it has been tax-and-spend and big growth in…

As you said, with local, State and Federal taxes, the average family is paying 40 percent of their income into taxes. And that can increase, with the hidden taxes, up to around 50 percent or more. Thirty-eight percent of our gross domestic…

I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, and I remember the little one-lane roads, the dusty dirt roads, the lack of utilities, the small one-room schools. I remember how it was. If you go into eastern Kentucky where I came from today, you…