Robert Ehrlich

Of course, this whole debate is chock full of irony. You have big union bosses asking the working people in this country to take their hard-earned money to pay big time media consultants to run ads to defeat folks in this Congress who have…

Eighty-seven percent support welfare that requires work and is of limited duration. They also support a balanced budget amendment by a huge margin, with 82 percent of union folks in favor of a constitutional requirement that Washington…

I want to get back to the TEAM Act. I want to go right to the balanced budget, because it includes my favorite whopper: the rich, tax cuts for the rich. How many times do we see class warfare strategy utilized on the floor of this House…

Again, what was the budget figure that the Republicans propose for the next 7 years? Was it an increase of $7,200 in the year 2002, which was very close to the President's number, by the way?

The gentleman just used the term ``fear'' twice in the last minute. That is a great lead-in to category 2, issue 2, standing up for families and seniors. ``Ehrlich voted to slash Medicare and Medicaid,'' my personal favorite whopper from…

Which is a radical thought in this town. It is a radical thought in this town that politicians would act on the basis of what individually he or she believes is best for the country, and not on the basis of what the latest poll would…

Another irony at work here, and of course we have the President of the United States acting in a very compassionate way in this election year, trying to sell the American people on the notion that he supports an increase in the minimum…

We could really be compassionate, let us get real compassionate. Why not $20? Why not? We could put a lot more money in a few workers' pockets, and we would cause an awful lot of unemployment.

There is no more important thing that we are going to accomplish in the 104th Congress than to reenergize the people with respect to this issue. I thank the gentleman again for his leadership.

We have wonderful parents in this country and most parents do a wonderful job. We have peer pressure in this country on the other side. But the fact is parents and coaches and politicians cannot go with kids when they go out on Friday…

Roles models become role models because they set an example. I look forward to working with you and the members of our subcommittee in a bipartisan manner to reenergize the leadership in this society. As I said, not just the political…

It is demand, it is treatment, it is source country, and it is interdiction zone, the transit zone. I know we are going to talk about that, those four elements more in the future. We have talked about this a great deal. As I have said…

Absolutely, absolutely, because there are some people in this country who had just given up. Nancy Reagan never said the entire strategy consists of ``Just say no.'' She never did. But for some, really on the cynical side of politics, she…

Harking back to our visit from the former First Lady, Nancy Reagan, and her testimony before our committee, was it not interesting when she said she never thought ``Just say no'' would take off the way it did. I know you recall and we all…

I am sure we will revisit this issue, and maybe when we come back to this floor in a week or two or three, we will be able to report to the American people that we had a real good debate about the budget and about Medicare, and it never…

Cheesy tax cut promises only make Americans cynical about government. Can you imagine that, putting more money back in your pocket so you can grow, so you can take a risk, begin a business and hire people? That makes you cynical about…

This bill is fair, it raises more money, again on a progressive basis, from those who can afford to pay and who have paid least during the decade of the 1980s.

A balanced budget amendment, a line-item veto. They knew about these things. Maybe they did not label it as the Contract With America, but they recognized it when they saw it and they supported it and they voted accordingly and they are…

You hear time and time again the Democrat spin artists, the Democrat pollsters say, Hey, no one heard about the Contract With America, it is phony, folks, it was just one of those things. It was a bad year. We had an unpopular President…

And in the process, I, we are looking to your leadership to let the American people know the real facts. I hope the leadership from the Democratic party in this House will begin to engage in an honest debate. If they have nothing to hide…

We talked about that 2 weeks ago. Cliches, rhetoric, they do not get it. Class warfare. Right here is where the rubber meets the road and the American people can open their newspaper, tune in C-SPAN, listen to the radio, receive our…

The Democrat majority never allowed real tort reform measures to be brought to the floor of this House ever, and the American people demanded it and the Democrat majority said no, it is not important. And what the new Republican majority…

Right. And only the Federal Government knows best what people need, not just the poor, but middle-class, working-class Americans.