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American politician (born 1926)
That is about $10,000 per family. Just paying interest, by the way, the first thing that comes out of your paycheck is interest on the debt. Before you can do anything, before you can build roads or fund your schools or do anything, you…
A bit more than half of all the expense budget is salaries, and we now do not have enough military personnel, who are having to extend their tours. They have been on the ground over there, reservists on the ground for a year, and now they…
By the way, the interest on the debt is part of what we call mandatory spending. Our total expenditures this year will be about $2.4 trillion. We will vote on about one-third of that, about $800 billion, and about half of that will be…
I would hope, because we cannot continue to amass this ever-increasing debt. As the gentleman stated, interest rates are now very low, and still interest on the debt is a meaningful percentage of the largest item in our budget, which is…
That is right. That is what happened in Russia today. So their senior citizens who worked a lifetime to earn a retirement, now have $5 to $6 a month for their retirement. We could monetize the debt. We could cause such inflation in this…
Projecting this out, we will buy and buy, and have a lesser appetite for borrowing from the public. Pigs may fly, too, but I think that is about as likely as the Federal Government paying this debt.
I would like to make two observations. One is that about the time of the Reagan administration, there were a lot of bumper stickers I saw out there that said ``no trillion dollar debt.'' Now it is more than six times that big, and we have…
Before our tax cut, the top 50 percent of taxpayers paid 96 percent of all the taxes paid in the country. After this tax cut, the top 50 percent of taxpayers pay 97 percent of all the taxes paid in this country. Let us say it another way…
Americans are waiting for desperately needed economic stimulus and energy bills. Mr. Speaker, the other body has put Americans on hold; on hold for a comprehensive energy bill, on hold for an economic stimulus bill. Both are long past due…
Under section 16(b), H.R. 2983 limits civil penalties to be paid by such contractors to no more than the amount of the discretionary fee. Would the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton) agree that the appropriate definition for 'discretionary…
The best reason to reject this amendment is because the military medical personnel want you to. It has only been fairly recently we actually had a law enforcing the policy that has been in effect for a long time that we are not going to do…
The United States has about 2 percent of the known reserves of oil in the world. We use 25 percent of the world's oil, and we now import 56 percent of the oil that we use. This is up from 34 percent that we imported at the time of the Arab…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5314 is a noncontroversial bill that helps facilitate the adoption of military working dogs at the end of their careers. This bill passed the House of Representatives on October 10, 2000, by a voice vote. When the bill…
I would like to say in closing that Federal law prohibits political activity on any Federal land, including military land. In Maryland, we can campaign within 100 feet of the polling place. If that polling place were on a military…
I think this policy of using taxpayer money to fund the morning after pill without parental consent is obscene and insane. A child in school cannot get an aspirin without parental consent, and yet this legislation... would permit the…
But no matter what millennium we are living in, the marriage tax penalty makes no sense. How can the Government justify charging married couples an extra $1,400 in taxes just because they are married? The Marriage Penalty Tax Relief Act is…
Americans are currently subjected to the death tax, a law that taxes families up to 60 percent of their loved one's savings, or the worth of their farm or family business, upon their death. This unfair tax prevents more than 70 percent of…
I proudly rise to defend Dr. Laura and her right to freely express her religious convictions, her deeply held religious convictions, without fear of being called a bigot. If her rights are denied, all our rights are at risk.
Last year this Congress passed legislation to end the unfair marriage tax penalty. Regrettably, President Clinton chose to veto it. If he had signed our legislation into law, 28 million married couples could have had up to $1,400 in…
The President and House Democrats want to continue their 30-year raid on the Social Security trust fund but Republicans have drawn a line in the sand. First, we forced the President to agree to our lockbox provision, which walls off the…
I am strongly supportive of expanded free and open trade, but this bill is not the way to get there. It is unconstitutional. I have here a press release from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the media in my district, chastising me for not…
The Gulf War and the flights over Iraq are not included in this. You know, if you do not pass my amendments, a year from now we are going to be back here asking where the $100 million went. We are trying to bribe the UN into making…
One cannot make arguments that sending troops to Rwanda and Somalia advanced our vital national interests to the point that we should bear the full cost of that. That is what we are now doing.
The sun is rising this morning in America and shining on many happy faces. Taxpayers are celebrating because conservatives in Congress and President Clinton have agreed on plans to simultaneously balance the budget for the first time in…
Three of the six counties in our district are in Appalachia where WIC is a very important program. I am a strong supporter of WIC, and if I believed for 1 minute that this bill shortchanged the WIC Program, I would be supporting the Obey…
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