for a moment, I want to talk about what our decision should be in this United States Congress as we approach another budget year. One of the big challenges of the Congress of the United States is the overspending of government, because it…

I share with my colleagues a poem by Albert Carey Caswell. And to This End And to this end Approach Heaven, our True American Hero . . . America's finest of all true friends Rest now . . . our Great American Patriot . . . as up to Heaven…

I was farming and in the Michigan legislature when Ronald Reagan took office. With President Reagan, he not only led the country but restored America's confidence. He renewed our sense of America's goodness and America's greatness. And…

people say that a truly great athlete is not only gifted himself, he makes those who play with him better. The same is true of President Reagan, who not only led the country, but restored America's confidence. He renewed our sense of…

I would like to relate some of my memories of World War II. I was born in 1934. I was about 7, 8, 9 and 10. In our community what allowed Rosie the Riveter to go into the workforce and our factories was other women on the homefront, that…

it is my sincerest pleasure that I rise to recognize and compliment the congressional pages that will be ending their term of service this week. The House pages have made up the critically important staff that has kept the House floor…

I was sitting up in my office listening, reading letters from constituents, letters that wanted more money for the AIDS program, letters that wanted more money over the approximately $29 billion that is going to our foreign support…

I rise today to honor three young men from my district who sacrificed their lives while serving in the Armed Forces in the war on terror. Jason Plite of Delta Township, Eaton County, Michigan, was a senior airman in the Air Force who died…

the challenge is unending, and one thing I am nervous about in terms of Washington sometime in the future is paying the Social Security benefits, the Medicare and Medicaid benefits that we have promised, because what we have done over the…

I would suggest this kind of partisan language would not be appropriate in any legislation. I assume the goal of the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) is not to politicize science and research, yet I respectfully suggest that is what…

H. Con. Res. 409 resolves that Congress recognizes with humble gratitude the more than 16 million veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II and the Americans who supported the war effort on the home front…

this afternoon I am going to give sort of a tutorial on Federal Government finances. This is the 195th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and, in his famous Gettysburg Address, he sort of indicated, can a Nation of the people and by the people…

I hope we can move ahead and have a balanced budget. But there are two ways to get to the balanced budget. We can increase taxes and continue on this splurge of increased spending from the Federal Government and the growth of Federal…

I would like to address certainly different issues that I think are possibly more serious than a lot of challenges this Congress has faced, this Nation has faced in fact. This is the 195th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, and in my district…

Tom Savings, an actuary with both Medicare and Social Security, came to my office a couple of weeks ago. This is what he said where our promises exceed our ability to pay for it, unfunded liabilities: Medicare part A, $21 trillion…

I hope Members are watching this just as a reminder of what we have done to try to not embarrass ourselves as we sort of secretly increase the debt.

Right now interest is 14 percent of the budget. Defense is 20 percent of the budget. It is easy to at least assume there is a good possibility that the very low interest rates today could double. That would mean $440 billion a year, or 28…

It is a whole different 1-hour debate and discussion; but just, for example, one country, we have $100 billion deficit trade with China, and what does China do with that extra $100 billion? They probably invest it in our companies, or buy…

No plans. I do not see it in terms of responsibility much different than what any family should do, what any business should do, and that is you cannot just keep going deeper and deeper into debt without any plan to ever pay that debt…

I think it is good to remind ourselves that our Founding Fathers in the original Constitution did not want to penalize individuals that were going to school and working and saving. So the original Constitution says we cannot have a tax…

So the challenge is Social Security has an unfunded liability of about $12 trillion now. But now we have made even more promises in Medicare and Medicaid. So not only deficit spending is how much we overspend in one year; the debt is…

I happen to be the prime sponsor of the flat tax. But whether it is a flat tax or a value-added tax or a type of sales tax, we need to change our Tax Code if we are not going to continue to put a lot of people at a disadvantage and a lot…

I want to show this chart of what government has done historically every time Social Security has less money than what is needed to pay benefits, and it is a pay-as-you-go program. It is deducted from the paycheck at the end of the 1 week…

The debt is $7 trillion divided by about 290 million. It comes out to almost $25,000 for every man, woman and child in terms of their share of the debt.

how do we change? How do we develop the kind of discipline, intestinal fortitude to start slowing down this huge growth of government to the extent that we have decided we will simply borrow more and more money to take home to our…