I am talking about allowing full depreciation for new machinery and equipment that a business buys. Right now we say that they have to depreciate that machinery or equipment over a period of whatever, 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 years, but as that…

we talk about some of the tax changes and the $500 per tax child tax credit, not a deduction but a tax credit for each child in America where their parents file income tax. That is a beginning. But let me talk about another tax fairness…

I would like to suggest to the Members of this Chamber that it can no longer be business as usual. This afternoon we discussed H.R. 6. We discussed about the growing amount of crime in this country. We discussed about how we are going to…

last Friday we had a meeting of our crime advisory task force in Michigan. Crime has got to be one of the top priorities of not only the Federal Government, but certainly State and local government and individual families. Crime is getting…

I have in my hand a W-2 form. Every working American knows what this is, but I think it's an excellent time of year to look at this W-2 form to see what government does to us, by observing how much they take out of our paychecks. If you…

some people say that 40 years is long enough. Long enough for this body to be controlled by one political party. Some people say, ``How will it be different under GOP control?'' My home State of Michigan provides an example of what changes…

Supplemental Security Income was designed to help the disabled who can no longer work and sustain their incomes. Unfortunately, some people have found that a court interpretation of a 1972 law allows them to take billions of dollars from…

today I am dropping in a bill to change the way the CPI is computed for Government payouts. The Consumer Price Index, CPI, is probably the most widely used measure of inflation. A number of Federal Government programs are tied to these…