Thank you very much. If you continued that, last year, May 27 was tax free day. That is more than 42 percent. But we were not through yet supporting Government, because between May 27 and July 10, every person in America who worked spent…

this week we vote on the most important part of our Contract With America. In the last Congress, the largest tax bill in the history of this country was passed; and, in typical form, it was mislabeled and called a deficit reduction…

Mr. Chairman, when, some years ago, Henry David Thoreau was lamenting what he thought was harm being done to the environment by mankind, he said that if they could fly they would lay waste to the skies. It was inconceivable to Henry David…

Why are Republicans working to change the way Government works? Why are we working so hard to pass a balanced budget amendment, to enact real anticrime measures, to reform our welfare state? The answer is: for America's children. We want…

it is my happy privilege today to recount our Contract With America and where we are in its fulfillment. Our Contract With America states the following: On the first day of Congress, a Republican House will: Force Congress to live under…

It merely instructs the Commission to examine whether unbiased science is used when enforcing the State implementation plans such as other emissions testing under the Clean Air Act.

when the average American learns that Congress does not have to live under all of the laws and regulations that all of our citizens live under, they are appalled. They understand how difficult it is for a Congress to effectively legislate…

next week I will be offering an amendment to strike $13,129.66 from the White House office account to demonstrate the will of the House that the White House release the logs and manifests from the Marine helicopter squadron that supports…

I rise in strong opposition to this bill, which will do nothing to fight crime and infringe on our second amendment rights.

today I rise to pay my respect to former President Richard Nixon. With his passing, his party lost a great leader. Our country lost a great President. And the world lost a great statesman. Each life is a mosaic of hills and valleys, of ups…

when U.S. military personnel enter into dangerous situations, they do so with the full awareness that their lives are on the line. Our brave men and women give literally their all for us--and they should expect no less from us. Army…

I rise in strong support of the Barton amendment. This amendment has a unique and essential element for a workable balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. It will require a three-fifths vote of the Congress to either raise taxes or…

I made a number of promises to my constituency when I was running for Congress, and one of those promises was that I was going to submit a bill to apply the laws to Congress, all the laws and regulations that they apply to everyone else…

I made a number of promises to my constituency when I was running for Congress, and one of those promises was that I was going to submit a bill to apply the laws to Congress, all the laws and regulations that they apply to everyone else…

I rise in strong support of the Armey amendment. This amendment makes explicit, has language which makes explicit, what some may feel is implicit in the amendment on which we previously voted. The hundreds of thousands of constituents who…

today I rise to express concern about the President's budget proposals for defense. For example, in the Clinton defense budget, spending is slightly increased. This gives a thinly veiled appearance of increased defense spending, but in…