I thank very much the diligent work of our chairman of the full committee and subcommittee, the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Bliley], and the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Oxley]. This is a very tough and complex issue, flow control and…

One of the things I have said a lot as I have gone around my district and around the State of Michigan and here in Washington too is in this Chamber, sometimes it seems as though we have too many Republicans and too many Democrats, and not…

we cannot allow those phony assumptions to come into place. That is why, as we make the tough decisions today, Medicaid, Medicare, what size of the tax cut, if any, that ought to be there, all the tough choices, we do not want to go…

As my colleague pointed out, school lunches are going up at least $200 million each and every year. I can hardly wait next fall to go to the schools where they believe that school lunches are going to be over and sit down and have lunch…

As I look at my State of Michigan, a few years ago we had a debt of about almost $2 billion, which is a lot for any State. Our Governor and our legislature went after spending, tightened everybody's belts. Today they have cut taxes 23…

all of us here have been elected to represent the 600,000 people in each of our respective districts, but each of us also knows that we need to put always the interests of our great country ahead, No. 1. We are all Americans and we are…

I speak today not really as a Member of Congress in the well; I speak as a parent of a 3-year-old and of a 7-year-old. You bet I want to control what they watch. One of my colleagues earlier today said well, just use the off button. Mr…

I ran for Congress to fight spending and to reduce the deficit. What has been more frustrating than ever has been when we have been able to get amendments on this House floor to cut spending, more times than not we have lost those battles…

Again, I respect the gentleman from Illinois tremendously, but this is an issue that puts the Congress as a player in making decisions that are certainly, I think, the biggest ones that we make, sending, whether it is our children or our…

Mr. Chairman, deficits do matter They really do. Before I was in the Congress, I worked for a President by the name of Ronald Reagan. I watched a Congress then that promised that they would make $2 or $3 in spending cuts for every dollar…

This is maximum flexibility. There is no way anybody loses. Everybody gains by this. Local communities get to decide this themselves, rather than our making those decisions for them. Yes, as I heard one of the gentleman over there say, I…

reclaiming my time, so whereas we have been denied in the past, this would be an avenue of actually receiving funding to go on the frontline for prevention and deal with the problem of crime that we have in communities both large and small.

It is time to keep our promise. The deficit today is over $200 billion, and it is as far as the eye can see $200 billion. In fact, by the turn of the century it is not going to be $200 billion, it is not going to be $300 billion. The OMB…

Mr. Speaker, it is high time that Congress starts to do what it asks everyone else to do: Live under its own laws. When I walk into a restaurant in my home town in Michigan, the owners of that restaurant must abide by a litany of Federal…

I do not have a problem with banning weapons that are not used for legitimate hunting or sporting. In fact, I voted for the Brady bill before it was popular, and I supported the President's crime bill as well. I was appalled, in fact, by…

I rise in support of the amendment offered by my good friend from Arizona, Jon Kyl. The opponents of a balanced budget amendment say that we don't need it, well, 24 straight unbalanced budgets says we do. The opponents of a balanced budget…

to use the old tired Yogi Berra saying, it is deja vu all over again. That is right, here we go again. Was it not during the House banking scandal when the Democratic leadership worked the phones to deny a full-disclosure vote a few years…

I would like to say before the House that this House loved two of its previous Members, Gerry Ford and Paul Henry. As Jim Ford, the Chaplain of the House, said earlier today, he asked us to pray for character and justice. Character and…