I had the privilege of first meeting Cardinal O'Connor in New York in 1996. I was drawn to meet with Cardinal O'Connor because of an outstanding offer that he had made. He had made an offer to the city of New York and to the New York…

And $7 million is real money. It is the same thing we have in the Department of Education. Secretary Riley is saying, we cannot find 1 percent. If we go to his department, as three of us did last week, and we talked to his chief deputies…

I was going to give an example of doing better, and one example of this administration thinking that they can do better. Under the National Performance Review process, which was designed to streamline government, and maybe this was the…

that puts us right back to what the Republican agenda has been and like we said when we began this. The two parameters are, number one, their books are not auditable, so we are going to be able to find the waste, fraud, or the savings in…

Reclaiming my time, when the chief financial officer says we have this account established that has over $700 million in it, only 2 percent of which, only $12 million, is in that account based on why that account was set up, meaning…

Going back to the letter my colleague was reading, the Department clearly knows that their financial controls were lacking, when they say the Department has worked closely with their Inspector General. It is obvious they have not done a…

Yes, they sent it back. But these were examples and they were only telling us about a couple. So, again, this is another thing that we have asked for is, give us a listing of all the duplicate payments that were made under this old…

I welcome my colleague from Colorado here tonight as we talk about educating our children. The topic tonight came out of a process that for some of us began in 1995, where we began a process that was called Education at a Crossroads, where…

this is I think maybe perhaps one of the sadder moments when we were sitting down with the leadership of the Department of Education and we asked about duplicate payments and they said, we are aware of one. And we kind of pushed them on it…

If we go to take a look at that report, I believe that is also the report that says of the $712 million that were in that account at the end of 1996, only $12 to $13 million were actually in the account based on what the account was set up…

we are talking about the money that Washington believes we ought to spend, instead of the American people spending, on a variety of programs and services.

I hope that that is the option that this Congress pursues and pursues aggressively, because if we begin in 1999 to take a look, a serious look at reform, and if we implement reform in this Congress, that gives us, then, you know, we have a…

One of the bills that I have introduced says that at the end of the year when one gets one's W-2, that the W-2 ought to state clearly what one has paid in FICA taxes and what one's employer has paid in matching FICA taxes, because really…

Mr. Speaker, I think that this is a very good budget proposal. What this budget enables us to do is to build on the success that we have created over the last number of years. What does this budget do? Number one, it locks away the entire…

But when we take a look at the FICA taxes or the Social Security taxes when an employee at the end of the year gets their W-2 which shows how much income they have made, and it shows how much they have paid in tax, is the full Social…

If we really think about it, a debt of $20,000 per person, and I am a family of five, meaning that my share of the national debt is greater than my mortgage.

What the gentleman is pointing out is that with as much progress as we have made since 1995, there is still a lot of reason to be cautious. There is still a lot of work to do. There are people here in Washington who are saying, wow, look…

There are five of us, so our share of the national debt is $100,000, and next year it is going to be $103,000. It is going the wrong way.

I thank the Chairman. If this amendment and the other amendments do not deal about flexibility, do not deal about the degree of latitude that a local school district has, I am not sure what the debate is about. But what we have done in…

what we have found is that as we go to the local school districts, we find that they have lots of needs. Some have needs for professional development in the area of science and training; some have needs for special education dollars; some…

What the top chart enables us to do, if we stick to the spending caps and we pass our budget, is to really focus on what our colleague here has been working on, which is to seriously take a look at Social Security reform. Because we have…

The false deficit. Mr. Speaker, that is right. But we still are facing this crisis. So we, with the plan now to wall off the Social Security dollars, say, number one, we are getting a handle on it. But it does not take care of these…

In 1998 the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit of somewhere in the neighborhood of $225 billion, the President's plan. In 1999, that number would have been about $250 billion. In the year 2000, it would be about $290 billion…

what does the gentleman mean ``obviously?'' It is all the money that they have made. It is all the money that is excluded that is taken out of their check by taxes. Would not it all be covered?

all the stuff below the line on the President's proposal is new debt for our children.