John W. Olver

I think that the discussion here that has been going on really is most appropriate because tomorrow we are going to be talking about the beginning of the debate on the middle-class tax cut. We have all heard a great deal about the…

However, it is clear that what is happening here is that $15 billion, for instance, of the elimination of the tax, the alternate minimum tax on corporations, which you would give back $15 billion to corporations, would be taken by the…

In just a couple of weeks we are going to be beginning debate on the cornerstone of the Republican Contract on America, and that is a tax cut of $200 billion over 5 years. Never mind that those tax cuts are going to add to the deficit…

for 58 days now the Republican majority has had kids and seniors in their sights. Yesterday they hit both with one shot. LIHEAP, the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program, is gone. LIHEAP helps almost 6 million families pay their…

Mr. Speaker, we cannot protest enough what is really going on right now in this people's House of Representatives. I hope there are some parents out there who have put their children to bed and are listening to tonight's discussion. If…

last year I voted for the Crime Control Act of 1994 which promised Americans who live in fear of crime 100,000 more cops on the beat in community policing. Already, 17,000 cops have been provided to more than 8,000 large cities and small…

On Tuesday, 40 communities in my district got good news. They can hire more cops to fight crime, they can hire these cops because of the community policing program that President Clinton championed and we passed last year. Community…

Yesterday I was able to call mayors and police chiefs of over 40 small communities in my district. I told them they would be getting a grant to hire a cop because of last year's crime bill, the Anti-Crime Act of 1994. Some will get two…

I, too, rise tonight to speak about that critical aspect of the welfare reform that is overlooked by the Contract With America. I'm talking about child support. The contract spells out the exact punishments for women on AFDC. Women under…

But let us be honest. It sounds more like the female punishment act. It spells out exact responsibilities and punishments for women on AFDC. But it lets fathers off the hook without even a mention. Many women and their children are on…

we need to pass a balanced budget amendment, but amending the Constitution really cannot be taken lightly. Our Constitution has only been amended 17 times in over 200 years since the Bill of Rights. Our Constitution is based on majority…

we are fast approaching 5,000 billion dollars in debt, and the interest on that debt is $200 billion every year. That interest on the debt is greater than the deficit for this year for the first time, and it will be for many years in the…

I also favor the Wise capital budgeting balanced budget amendment version because I do not support adding public-policy-related supermajority requirements to the Constitution. Supermajority votes are appropriate in the checks-and-balances…

I think one of the most ironic parts of this debate is that at this very time, we have just finished commemorating 50 years since D-day, and that epic struggle against fascism which the Second World War represented. And one of the features…

In very tight times, this budget is as good as it can be under the budgetary constraints that are involved, and I think the chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], and the members of the subcommittee really should be very proud…

health care costs are out of control. Americans will spend nearly $4000 this year on health care. Their employers spend 12 percent of payroll on health care. And more than 14 percent of our GDP--$1 trillion--is spent on health care. Mr…

we can make history this year by reforming America's health care system. Our goals should be universal coverage, comprehensive benefits, total portability, and controlled costs. There is wide agreement on these goals, and we must achieve…

This was a safe haven. This was a United Nations safe haven. We designated it as a safe haven. And, in essence, the West, all of us together, have set them up like ducks. As we all know, not to be too corn ball, but this is not in our…

The tragedy to me is that the President's initiative at Sarajevo, which so many of us saw as being so very hopeful, that finally the United Nations and the European Community and we understood and understand that only force, or at least a…

The most remarkable thing to me is that the Serb insurgents have issued an ultimatum within Gorazde that without a surrender and people leaving by 10 o'clock our time this morning, then in their view everyone is subject to be slaughtered…

If I may, that is a right which we as Americans cherish, the right of self-defense, defending yourself against attack, as individuals, as families. That is written into the United Nations charter, the right of nations to their own self…

I think what you have said, Mr. Hoyer, is very important. And indeed, if we do not apply what you have said in this situation, from this day forward, in this situation, to save what can be saved of an otherwise absolutely tragic and…

I believe that all of us believe that this was a very hopeful effort going on at Sarajevo, and yet we all knew that on the weapons counts that not all the weapons were being turned over to the United Nations, not all of them were being by…

The political arm denies the atrocities that have been committed time after time and then threatens the West with the consequences, threatens NATO, threatens the United Nation, threatens the United States, with the consequences.

I am here tonight to speak again about the ongoing tragedy, the ongoing disaster in Bosnia. It was only a couple of days ago that I spoke on this issue. At that time I pointed out and read from an editorial from the Washington Post which…