Joseph Knollenberg

Mr. Chairman, what I want to do is thank the gentleman from New York [Mr. Lazio], his staff, and the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] for their willingness and cooperation on the language that was part of the request for the…

Today the tax burden on working Americans is as high as it has ever been. We are asking our families to pay up to nearly 40 percent of their income in taxes. Tax Freedom Day, that is the day when we start working for ourselves and our…

I may sound like a broken record, but just 1 year ago I stood here in this well and said we must save Medicare. I said we cannot let this program that helps so many senior citizens in our country go belly up. Yet as much as many things…

the fundraising scandals of the 1996 Presidential election have moved campaign finance reform to the front burner of the agenda for the 105th Congress. Things like the ever-expanding influence of special and large contributions from…

Mr. Speaker, drug use by teenagers has exploded in this country, yet the President only seems to want to ignore it. Now we have found out that the FDA is trying to prevent parents from purchasing a home drug testing kit. Why? Because…

I guess we should be happy. After weeks of distortions and millions of dollars of AFL-CIO deceptions, and some downright crazy claims about the 104th Congress, the President has finally come clean. His acceptance speech at the Democratic…

Mr. Chairman, as has been mentioned for more than 200 years our Nation has been a melting pot of cultures and nationalities united by one common bond--our English language. When our ancestors came to America, they came to this country…

here they go again. No ideas, so let us scare America with White House distortions and union leader lies. Before Republicans took control of Congress last year, the President's 1995 budget had a rising deficit. Now overnight he is a budget…

what really is going on with the President. I know he likes to change his mind and switch his position, but this week, the President and his friends were in rare form. We know the President has promised to reform welfare as we know it. Yet…

I want to focus on the fact that in this appropriations bill, like any other appropriations bill, we did not simply spread the pain evenly among the programs in our jurisdiction. Instead, we prioritized spending program by program based on…

I just happened to hear some things I thought I should respond to because some folks have the impression that nothing is really happening here; we just slide these numbers around, everything is cool, everything is kind of like nice. Let me…

just this week, and in connection with what the previous speaker was talking about, where are we on this whole thing, where really is the President on all of this? He changed his mind about welfare again. He said in a speech to the…

Mr. Speaker, every hard working American family stands to benefit from the policies the Republican Congress is moving forward. Despite the outrageous scare tactics and the "sky is falling" strategy of the Democrats, the future will be…

I again thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, by its terms the McCarran-Ferguson Act renders any Federal statute inapplicable to the activities of insurance companies, if, one, the Federal statute does not specifically relate to insurance…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to clarify the committee report language regarding HUD's application of the Fair Housing Act to property insurance and to engage the distinguished chairman, if I might, in a colloquy. First, I think it is important to…

Mr. Chairman, while the legislative history is quite clear, the situation in the courts is less so. Recently, two circuit courts reached the conclusion that the Fair Housing Act applies to the business of insurance. Those courts strictly…

Finally, Mr. Chairman, the courts have held that a Federal statute will be deemed to invalidate, impair, or supersede State law whenever the State has regulated the same general subject within the business of insurance. Currently, all…

employees have a right to know why their hard-earned money is being taken out of their pockets and being used by union leaders. They also deserve the right to stop it if they choose. Why would anyone oppose legislation which gives workers…

Amen. And I concur very strongly with the ranking member, but we have not eliminated, and I think this is very important, we have not eliminated, by any means, our ability to participate in the world. Foreign aid, which makes up less than…

I want to thank Chairman Moorhead for pushing this bill through Congress. It is a tribute to his fine leadership--and leadership we will miss when he departs at the end of this Congress. I am very pleased the chairman has provided this…

we know this is not really about helping working families. If increasing the minimum wage was such a great idea, why did we not do this back in 1993? I guess the leadership at that time did not think it was important when they were too…

Look out, Mr. and Mrs. America. The President is selling his own personal brand of snake oil again. But guess what? Sometimes the President does not really mean what he says. As recently as this weekend the President said he now supports…

Yesterday was tax freedom day, May 7-- the latest it has ever been. That means American working families are working longer for the Federal Government than ever before. American working families pay almost 40 percent of their total income…

I strongly support the rule and the underlying bill. This bill repeals an outdated, depression-era law and puts the power and responsibility where it belongs, in the hands of local communities and residents, not the Washington bureaucrats…

I guess the President just simply loves higher taxes. In 1993 he passed the highest tax increase in American history: an increase in the tax gas, an increase in Social Security taxes on seniors, an increase in taxes on small business. Now…