the first question it seems like we should ask ourselves: How do we most efficiently and most effectively get bridges and roads repaired in this country? One problem with the money coming to Washington and then going back to the States is…

Should all good causes be implemented into Federal law? And I think what I hear you saying is no.

That has got to be an ultimate goal. The other goal that the gentleman from Colorado and I both agree with is we have got to start paying down the Federal debt. Right now, the interest on that $5 rac{1}{2}$ trillion that the Federal…

So often what happens is, though we are not authorized under the Constitution to pass laws, what we do is a combination of bribery and blackmail in trying to impose the will of the Federal government on local jurisdictions. So we say…

One thing that came from almost all the cities was that we should stop using the Social Security trust fund money to mask the deficit and that we should stop using, taking that money, and in return giving nonmarketable IOUs. ... I…

continuing the discussion on do we really have a surplus, yesterday the Congressional Budget Office estimated that this year we would have a surplus of $8 billion. However, this year we are borrowing about $90 billion from the Social…

our Congressional Budget Office today made an announcement that they now predict that we will have a $8 billion surplus this fiscal year ending October 1. It gives me a great deal of concern that we are hoodwinking the American people on…

I suspect some of my colleagues might be disappointed in the message I am going to convey in the next 5 minutes. Mr. Speaker, this is one of the several books that the President sent over on the budget that we will start in 1999. The…

I would ask everybody to hold onto their hats. I am going to spend the next 30 minutes talking about Social Security. And maybe the question should be, why should anybody be interested in what the situation is in this country with Social…

I would like to put in a suggestion, Mr. Speaker, that we use some of this money to start paying back the Social Security trust fund and start dealing with the huge unfunded liability that we are now faced with with this program of Social…

just according to the Heritage Foundation, phasing out subsidies will save $2.3 billion over 5 years.

I want to talk straightforwardly about what I think is one of the greatest problems facing this country, and that is the fact that Social Security is going broke. Mr. Speaker, we are now looking at a situation where there is going to be…

My amendment, Mr. Chairman, would have delayed the implementation of the new formula so that the appropriate authorizing committees would have an opportunity to address these issues properly. I would ask the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr…

I call to my colleagues' attention that the Department of Health and Human Services agrees that States should not have major disruption. The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors have just passed a resolution…

do not make education a partisan issue. We have now proven that Republicans and Democrats can work together when we are doing something the American people want. We have ended up with a balanced budget, the first time in 31 years. We have…

this tax legislation is monumental, and I thank the chairman very much for yielding me this time. What is exciting is that we are starting to let the American people keep a few more dollars of what they earn in their own pockets instead of…

there are some Members that would like to put off a decision on balancing the budget and having tax cuts. There are some Members that would hope that we could discuss this enough that they might discourage the President from going along…

In the last year the National Conservation Service has created a new regional bureaucracy. NRCS has local, State, and national offices. That is what they had before. Now they have put a new tier of bureaucracy between the State offices and…

there is a misconception about bringing the sugar prices down by doing away with this program. I served for 4 years as the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs in USDA. I assure you that today's agricultural policy is developed based on…

I thank my colleagues, Mr. Chairman. Let us remind ourselves, this is the first year of these six new regional offices. If we let them be entrenched, then we go for 2 and 3 and 4 years. It is going to be that much more difficult. It is a…

Agriculture, for 7 of the last 11 years, has taken the biggest hit on reductions. I would like to convince my colleagues over on the left that we have now stopped and are phasing out subsidies for agriculture. I helped write the risk…

But do not take it out of crop insurance that is so important in the transition of the Freedom to Farm bill.

I will vote for that amendment if she puts it in, but let us not take it out of crop insurance that farmers are going to suffer from.

I hope the American people that are observing this debate over taxes now realize why tax cuts come so slowly in this Congress. There are some elitists in this Chamber and a lot of egos that think that Washington can spend your money better…

I will vote for passage of this bill with reluctance. Congress should not continue to add more funds to appropriations bills that exceed what the administration suggests is needed. This appropriations bill provides $666 million more than…