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I really wonder if the President and the Democrats are truly interested in raising the minimum wage or is it just that they want to score some political points? When they controlled Congress back in 1992 and 1993 with President Clinton in…
do you remember who said ``I will change welfare as we know it''? The answer to this question is not a $64,000 question. In fact, we all know who said it: The same individual who said that the era of big government is over, except we want…
the President has submitted his budget to Congress and here is the big surprise. The era of big government is not over. Once again, the President has said one thing and done another. His actions simply do not match his words. He said he…
Mr. Chairman, the President announced this morning that he would veto the bill in its current form. Apparently it falls, still, $8 billion, some say $12 billion, short of quenching his appetite for Government spending. The message of the…
I wonder if the President has joined the flood of other former Democrats that have switched parties? If you watched the same State of the Union speech I did, one might think so. But it is really not what the President said that matters…
the new majority plan to save Medicare includes new health care choices for seniors. I heard something about unfairness over here a moment ago, but currently this is unfair. Medicare recipients are limited to a one-size-fits-all type of…
for all my colleagues who tried to scare the American public into believing that the devil was in the Republican Medicare plan, they forgot one thing, the truth is in the details, and in the marketplace of ideas, the truth will prevail…
it seems Goals 2000 bureaucrats have changed the way we teach addition and subtraction. If not, then how can the political operatives of the Democratic National Committee call a $1,900 increase a cut? It's really quite simple. Either they…
for months House Democrats have bantered about tax cuts for the rich. They have distorted our plan to balance the budget and increase the take-home pay of working families as a mean-spirited attempt to provide a boondoggle to wealthy…
I want to look at this aspect of it since, in the judgment of the gentleman from New York [Mr. Hinchey], the Department of Labor's directive does not preclude investment in ETI's, and since the bill of the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr…
the Republican majority has been diligently working to keep our promises to the American people. This fall we will complete work on our balanced budget plan, save Medicare from bankruptcy, and allow working families and businesses to keep…
I rise in opposition to S. 21. I too have watched the news reports of the worsening situation for the Bosnian people. But unilaterally lifting the arms embargo will not end this conflict. This legislation can only lead to the total…
yesterday the Republican Party passed the last hurdle in the Contract With America by passing our tax reduction package. We provide families a $500 per child tax credit, we slash the capital gains tax rate, repeal the Clinton tax increase…
Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago the Democratic majority in the House muscled through the largest tax increase in U.S. history without one Republican vote. Buried deep in tax language, the Democrats even included a cut in Social Security benefits…
I want to talk with my colleagues for a moment about the school-based child care block grant contained in the House Republican welfare bill. It has been subjected to vicious attacks by the White House and other defenders of the status quo…
we are seeing a new version of Robin Hood displayed by the Democrats this week. They want to ``take as much as possible from hard working families and give to the bureaucrats in Washington, DC.'' Minority Leader Gephardt even called the…
Yesterday Republicans kept another promise we made to the American people in our Contract With America. We passed a crime package that provides State and local governments the resources and flexibility to effectively fight crime in their…
Last week Congressman Kolbe and I introduced the Common Sense Welfare Reform Act. The American people are frustrated with dependency-fostering federal welfare programs. They realize that the War on Poverty has failed and are demanding real…
last night we heard President Clinton call for an increase in the minimum wage. Leon Panetta claims such an increase will ``keep people interested in work rather than in welfare.'' It must have been a busy week for the writers over at the…
the 10th amendment states that powers not delegated to the Federal Government will be reserved to the States and the people--not the other way around. However, the Federal Government has turned this amendment on its head by passing on to…
As we debate the reform of our Nation's welfare system, our deliberations must include a close examination of the federally mandated system of calculating rents paid by residents of America's public housing. The evidence is striking. The…
I am losing my patience with our present administration. On April 26, I forwarded a letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, asking him to specifically answer four questions on the administration's policy shift in Bosnia--the…
I rise today in strong support of H.R. 4426. This legislation, and the moneys it authorizes, can only help the United States continue to project a presence anywhere, anytime and anyhow. The isolationist critics of this position are…
yesterday's survey results on the public's faith in President Clinton's foreign policy skills were no surprise to me and my colleagues. We have known for some time that our country's once unquestioned role as leader of the free world is…
Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the amendment offered by my colleague, the gentleman from Florida. What we have before us today in H.R. 2442 is nothing more than super pork. In many ways, the ARC was the centerpiece of President…
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