Mr. Chairman, we face challenges in this country if we are to maintain a strong agricultural industry. The challenge right now is that other countries are doing better than we are helping their farmers. As much as this country works to…

My concern is the implication that the review process is not adequate and the implication that somehow there is some kind of danger with genetically modified products. That is totally incorrect. I think you heard the quote from the…

Reclaiming my time, the National Academy of Sciences in their report did say that proper oversight is good, but they also said, and I quote; ``In general, the current U.S. coordinated frame work has been operating effectively for over a…

in light of the June 27, 2000 hearing on water pollution and the impact of EPA's proposed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) rules on agriculture and silviculture, I would like to express my disappointment with the EPA approach to this…

just to reinforce the Hefley amendment that takes the research money away from asparagus, I mean, I do not know how many people in this Chamber like asparagus, but have my colleagues noticed the increased quality of that asparagus? Right…

H. Con. Res. 312 calls on states to more closely regulate certain types of loans and establish ceilings on the rates of interest that can be charged for them. I oppose H. Con., Res. 312 for two reasons. The first is that regulation of…

this afternoon the President is releasing his mid-session economic review. That review indicates that there will be over $800 billion more revenues coming into the Federal Government in the next 10 years than was projected just last…

Agriculture is in a very precarious situation right now. Many farmers are facing bankruptcy; and of course, that is why it is so important that we do not let the provisions in the bankruptcy law expire in 5 days as they would under…

I will not object, but just to express my frustration of hearing so much time spent on nongermane amendments and my amendment that is now being allocated 10 minutes is an amendment that allows the Bureau of Economic Analysis, one of the…

I believe it was 1985 that we passed the law to take Social Security off budget; and as everybody is aware, even with that designation, we continued to spend the Social Security surplus. So it would seem to me, I would say to the…

It is a good start. We need to remind ourselves that simply not spending the money does not fix the solvency problem of Social Security or fix the solvency problem of Medicare. Mostly because of demographics, the actuaries have determined…

I agree. Yet one of the Members from your side of the aisle is suggesting that we take money, additional money out of NSF and put it into HUD. Hopefully in this appropriation bill, before it is finished, we can find more money to…

Social security, as we see on this chart, now is the largest expenditure of the Federal Government. It uses 20 percent of all Federal Government funds. Medicare is 11 percent, but within the next 35 years Medicare, the way it is growing…

Mr. Chairman, just following up a bit on what the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) suggested, what is eventually going to make us successful in the way we budget, in the way we appropriate, in the way that we oversee administration, is…

Mr. Speaker, it is so important that we discuss and debate how we can improve the budget and the budget process. Right now we are approaching $1.8 trillion in annual spending. We are dealing with overspending in the past that has left us…

yesterday the Governor of Texas came out with a proposal that we have got to do something on Social Security to save it. He suggested that some of the tax that American workers pay in should end up in their own name invested to bring in…

Mr. Chairman, we have problems with budgets projections. It should be obvious to everybody how far off our projections are 1 year in advance, let alone 2 years in advance. Two years ago, CBO projected a $70 billion deficit for the year…

yesterday, Governor Bush came out with some general parameters on saving Social Security and the importance of saving Social Security. There has been a lot of discussion of whether there should be any privately-owned investment owned by…

I will vote against H.R. 701, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA). CARA violates the Budget Act. The legislation creates a new entitlement and is inconsistent with the budget resolution passed by the House and Senate. It would and…

on the issue of Social Security, on the issue of total public debt, it has been suggested by Vice President Gore that we start using the surplus coming in from Social Security and borrowing that money to pay down what is called the debt…

I want to just make a couple comments on Social Security. Mr. Speaker, I see a lot of young people joining us today. They are the generation at risk on Social Security. The actuaries of the Social Security Administration report that, if we…

this chart is on Social Security. I have been very interested and concerned about Social Security for the last 5 years. I have introduced three Social Security bills that have been scored by the actuaries of the Social Security…

I have been working on Social Security for the last 5 years. I am very concerned that we are putting off tough decisions that are going to mean that we either, in the future, substantially raise social security taxes on workers or we cut…

I have been on the Committee on the Budget for a full 7 years. This is my eighth year. This will be only the second budget that we have passed on time by April 15 during that time. In fact, in the total history of the Committee on the…

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