Mr. Kingston, what I learned is I am not a better number drawer when I have extra time than I am with short time. All this says is that the only budget that--and I do not want to be partisan, but that the President has sent the Congress is…

I was just saying on reform, testimony before our Committee on the Budget indicated there was $40 billion of fraud and abuse in the system. So, for a start, last year we had a proposal by the administration that the Federal Government…

We are actually starting to pay back some of this huge, gigantic, $6 trillion debt that the kids and grandkids are going to owe at that time if we do not change.

just some comments on the debt. You know, we have made a decision in the U.S. Congress to require that the Senate vote, that the House vote, that the President sign, any time that we increase the debt ceiling. Right now we have a debt…

Yes, that is true. I wonder if this is not good. I mean, probably people do not understand, the other side, when they say this is tax cuts for the rich. But see, what they are saying is by taking a $500 tax credit per child, the person…

this bill does two things. It cuts spending and it cuts taxes. I think we need to ask ourselves the question, what is going to make our communities in this country a better place to live and work and raise our kids? No. 1, it is to leave…

Gilbert and Sullivan once said in one of their operas ``Things are seldom what they seem.'' We have been talking a lot about the protests, and that maybe the tax cuts are unfairly divided between rich and poor. I think it is important that…

I am so excited that we are reducing part of the taxes, reducing $190 billion of taxes, to help offset the $250 billion tax increase that we had a year and a half ago, and we are doing it in such a way as to expand and encourage jobs in…

what I think we need to talk about is what do we do to expand more and better jobs in this country? I think we need to realize that almost every piece of legislation is a transfer of wealth, and especially appropriation bills and taxes. We…

I think probably it is a nicer, more friendly, better place to work and to live and to raise our kids. How do we get there, I think is the next question. Part of what we need is more and better jobs in our society. Right now that is a real…

They increase their price of toys and toothbrushes and automobiles and everything else. The only thing that that business can do is pass on that cost.

Yes, and I think the important point is, we cannot place our businesses at a competitive disadvantage with other businesses in the world. We have got to encourage them to buy the equipment and machinery that is going to make their…

just to continue with those charts, the first chart, this is the tax cut for working-class families. For those families earning less than $25 thousand, there is 100 percent tax cut. For those families earning less than $30,000, a 48…

after we finished this week, a lot of people are going to be saying, ``This is the week that was.'' This is the week that we are talking about reducing taxes. You know, a year and a half ago this body increased taxes over the 5 years of…

Witnesses appearing before the Committee on the Budget stressed the importance of increasing capital formation in this country if we expect to increase our standard of living. I, and we all, should be particularly concerned, because as we…

the point is that we need to make some changes. There is a problem in this country where we have started passing on unfunded mandates to cities and counties to let them pay for our philosophy changes. This is also a problem where we are…

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Elbridge Gerry in 1799, wrote: I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication…

in the first week of January the U.S. House of Representatives got rid of 3 standing committees, 25 subcommittees; we fired 682 congressional bureaucrats, and we totally reformed the procedures of the House of Representatives in addition…

Members of Congress were given the President's budget today, and once we look at that budget, I hope every Member, Republican and Democrat, as well as the American people, will be as upset as I am as I have gone through this budget. Here…

as we conclude another football season, I say: Move over, San Francisco. Step aside, San Diego Chargers. The real football champion is not from California, but from Michigan--and more specifically, from Albion, MI. Last month, Albion…

Mr. Speaker, has anybody thought about the uniqueness of today? Today is Tax Fairness Day, and it is the day that we are going to vote on a budget that is the highest in this Nation's history. Tax Fairness Day, by the way, is how many days…

I suspect a lot of Members of Congress wish that political campaigns were not quite so expensive and that the demands to accept special interest's political action committee money were not so great. Mr. Speaker, I think it is time for…

This is the week where most Americans have to finish off their taxes because day after tomorrow is the final deadline to pay Federal income tax. It is a good time to look at your W-2 form and see how much is being deducted from your…

I think it is quite disgusting and somewhat embarrassing that we will vote today to mess up our U.S. Constitution with a balanced budget amendment. We are taking this action because collectively we do not have the courage and we do not…

I am supporting the Solomon amendment because it is the only opportunity to vote on a balanced budget this year. I am disappointed that the Rules Committee would not allow an open rule so that we could consider changes to these proposals…