Robert Ehrlich

The bottom line is, my friend, when you empower families, when you return money to people, when you stop the ability of government to always, always, always grow, you hardly ever go wrong, and that is the bottom line to this package.

Today, people of different political philosophies came together and signed an accord. Included in that accord are many things we have debated on this House floor over the last 3 years, many items in the Contract with America, many items…

I believe in tax cuts. I think that the capital gains tax cut break should be zero. However, I am not king. I do not want to vote against this plan, because I like when people like me, because I run for public office. But I say to my…

We would agree with what the bill says, community work for residents who are not already meeting the welfare reform requirements.

Now, with respect to the substance of this debate, I have a question for the chairman, because I think it is very important that people all over the country understand exactly what we are talking about, and the folks that we are expecting…

H.R. 968 prevents the termination of certain training programs where the reason for the termination is an operational deficiency unrelated to the quality of the program, and where no alternative training program exists within a reasonable…

My inquiry to my good friend is, is there anybody in Arizona who thinks they could do better with a few more bucks in their pocket, who believes that a cut in the capital gains rate, or elimination of capital gains differential in this…

Only in this town do people think that when we raise taxes we generate additional revenue. It just does not work that way, and the gentleman's numbers speak for themselves. History, the empirical evidence, speaks for itself.

I agree with the gentleman and I really think the gentleman has hit the bottom line. At some point in this country, in this very House, the collective decision was made to punish success and punish risk in the capitalistic society. When…

In much the same way some people will believe tax cuts for working folks are tax cuts for the rich, in a very similar way some people will believe that slowing the growth in Medicare from 10 percent to 7 percent a year is a cut and on and…

If I went to this well every day and looked into that camera and said, folks, Mr. Wicker from Mississippi is wearing a blue tie today and I bought $100 million of ads and ran them across the country, and I did not care about telling the…

The answer is certainly yes, but that is not exclusive of the jurisdiction maintained by the corrections committee. I missed the point the gentleman is making. I can reiterate the fact that whenever a corrections day bill is reported out…

Just to back up what the gentleman from California had to say, I know the gentleman has another quote right next to him: ``The President has kept all the promises he meant to keep.'' What does that mean? The American people deserve to know…

But the rest of the year you are really not taking home the rest of your paycheck because, despite your takehome pay, you take your takehome pay, your cash, and you go out and you buy things which are taxes. So I think we really need to…

One hundred eighteen. But when we go to the grocery store, what do we see? One price, one price. We never think about it. And I love this term ``takehome pay.'' What does takehome pay mean to you, to the average person? Well, after you…

That is why the middle class in this country is nervous. When working folks get nervous, this place feels it. The gentleman has raised a very interesting point. The gentleman talked about, what was it, 120 different taxes on a loaf of…

This free ride on the American taxpayer has to end. That is the bottom line to illegal drugs. That is the bottom line to illegal immigration. That is the bottom line to reforming our legal immigration system. That is the bottom line to…

I hear this term sensitivity used in this House so much. But I never hear that term used in the context of the American taxpayer. The gentleman cited an interesting statistic early on; I think it bears repeating. The gentleman, I believe…

The gentleman said an awful lot of truth here. It really speaks to the fact that we are a multi-ethnic culture and we revel in that fact. The gentleman just recited that fact, but we are one culture. And that one culture has a common…

It is a pleasure being with everybody. Demagogues hate facts, but truth usually wins out.

There is no plan. It is fear. Fear wins elections. Class warfare wins elections. If they can get that woman making $18,000 a year to be jealous of that woman or that guy making $24,000 a year, guess what, they got a vote in the other…

Absolutely. Eloquent rhetoric. We all sat on this floor and watched the master politician. I hate being called a politician. I know you all hate it, too. Because politicians tell people what they want to hear. I know you three and I know a…

I really have a caveat to your observation because these folks are obviously very intelligent. I am not sure it is a misunderstanding. I think it is an understanding. What they understand is, if you go to this floor often enough and use…

I come here and I watch episodes like we just observed and it is really interesting. I guess my question to you is a rhetorical question. Why cannot folks on the other side simply debate with respect to facts? Why can they not say, look…