William Tauzin

I thank Chairman Shuster and his committee for the excellent work they have done on this bill. I want to particularly call to the chairman's attention language in the bill that is extremely vital for safety, health, hurricane protection…

I would also assume that, if and when this independent study is completed, as we expect it will be, that we will have the full cooperation of the chairman of the committee in hastening the completion of this?

if you like everything on television to be pay per view, if you want to pay extra to see the Olympics every time you want to see any Olympic game, if you want to pay extra for baseball or for ER or for all the programs you enjoy on…

I rise in this brief minute to allow all of us collectively to share the joy and pride of all the LSU alumni across America with the extraordinary success of the LSU baseball program and the great success of Coach Skip Bertman, who has now…

Free markets make sense in America. We applaud them. We are pleased with them. My liberal friends who like gasoline taxes believe that the price of gasoline should be really high so Americans will not use it any more. That is their theory…

What can we conclude about this Presidential veto? This is the second time the President has vetoed a tort reform bill passed by this House and Senate, passed by large numbers of both Republicans and Democrats. In fact, the last time he…

You know, Peter, if you yield, I think you are right. Some of the most stirring moments have been when Members have done that, have risen to congratulate Members on the other side of the aisle, and not only a good collegial way, but in a…

Of course, I can tell you countless stories, particularly from my Louisiana experience in the Louisiana legislature, about how Members who have spent time with another and have come to know and love, and respect one another in the same way…

And questioning my motives or my intent, it has gone beyond the pale. It has gotten out of the debate and gotten into the negative politics, is my point. If we could all, I hope every day, listen to the speeches on the floor of the House…

There is another thing we ought to mention before we conclude this special order tonight. That is that we all share some responsibility for the decline of civility in this place, for the decline of civility in politics in general. A recent…

Or Taco Bell, I should not fail to mention Taco Bell--had instead of talking about the good quality of their products, of their tacos and their hamburgers, if they had instead for 10 years got on television and talked about how rotten and…

And I do not think there is anything wrong with your characterizing my idea. You can characterize my idea as you see it. When you go from characterizing my idea to attacking me personally----

And how we return here in reelection campaigns with the art of governing. There is a huge difference between those two activities, yet we confuse them. Our politics have gotten meaner. Negative campaigning is the way in which candidates…

I think part of the problem, too, is that we fail to separate the politics of how we get here.

Every spring I plant natural resource trees, over the past 2 months, nearly 600: crab apples, redbuds, oaks, cherries, dogwoods, cypress, and cedar, just to name a few. I also cut down trees, mostly stunted or overgrown pine, to make room…

The idea that we told him and other seniors, "Don't go try to earn more money to have a good life, because we're going to take your Social Security away if you dare go out and continue to work," was an insult to him. One of the sterling…

I just want to reecho that thought, that this is the people's House, and in this House the people rule. That is an awfully statesmanlike approach to take, and it is surprising, indeed, that more folks do not realize that in this Chamber…

Guess what, too, after they have invested 12 years in that drug and $350 million, where do you think they get that money from? It goes into a much higher costing drug that Americans may need to save their lives or prolong their lives. If…

the reason they spend so much time in court battling over liability, is that the current law as it is written has this so-called deep pockets provision in it. So if you contributed 1 percent of whatever is in that site, you could be liable…

I particularly wanted to join you because I listened to the special order that preceded you, and if you were to listen to that special order, you would assume that much of the regulatory reform efforts that you just referred to that were…

For the first time, we finally got a bill out of this House that deals with the terrible issue of portability, as Americans move from job to job and lose their insurance. This bill now says you can take your insurance with you when you…

Of course it would. That is what we are trying to do in this reform. In short, we are trying to bring commonsense environmentalism to America. We are not trying at all to back away from our commitment to the environment. I believe, and I…

Yes, but you would not believe that by listening to some of this debate on the floor. The fact of the matter is there are quite a number of lobby groups in this town on both sides of this equation who have very special interests. There are…

in all this process of RDA reform, we have to keep our eyes, again, on the ball. The ball in this case is to make sure that food products Americans enjoy are safe products. That has to be our preeminent goal. Our second preeminent goal…

What we recommend is to pull the IRS and the income tax out by its roots, to get rid of the whole mess, to throw away the inheritance and gift taxes along with it, and substitute a simple national retail sales tax at the end of every…