There is only one cut, and that is when the number goes down. What we have done is we have slowed the growth. The government is still growing, it is still getting bigger. We are spending more money on a number of different issues which…

Yes. That brings us to 1999. If we would have treated social security honestly, and we are going to be talking about that later tonight, that number would have been $350 billions of deficit, and for spending of about $1.7 trillion we would…

When the deficit is increasing, and we have got that liability coming up on Social Security. The Federal Government going out and borrowing huge sums of money means potentially increased taxes for our kids and our grandkids. It means that…

For every dollar we spend on education, 30 to 35 cents of it stays in Washington, never gets to a child, never gets to a classroom, never gets to the local level where a parent, a school board, a teacher can say, ``Let's spend this money…

What I do encourage each and every person to do is to take a look at their W-2, to take a look at their FICA number, which is their Social Security tax, and remember that that number, whatever it is, is matched by what their employer paid…

If they are on Social Security and they are getting a check today, we are not messing with that. What we are doing is we are talking about how we are going to save Social Security for our kids and for our grandkids, and it will be a…

we have the commitment then not only for how we spend the current dollars, the 1.6-1.7 trillion, but then we also have the commitment that our colleague was talking about, the promises that they inherently believe that we have made. I…

Show me the money, and out the door it goes. Again, we have kind of set the priorities in the wrong place, because we have said the first place the money goes is to us, this generation, this generation of citizens and this government in…

As my colleagues know, at the Federal level, at the State level and at the local level we are going to working Americans and saying: The first 40 cents you own of every dollar is ours. So, Mr. Speaker, we have got an awesome responsibility…

I do not think there are any proposals here that are saying take all of the Social Security money and do that with all of the Social Security funds. It is most of the proposals, if not all of them, are very modest proposals to take…

I collect the taxes so the taxpayer who is over there has sent the dollars to Washington and I now work with the Congress or I am instructed by the Congress and I have created these 760 programs. So I need to communicate this to the local…

tonight we want to begin a dialogue that we hope sets the framework for tomorrow. Tomorrow, there is going to be limited debate on a bill that is coming to the floor. It is called ``Dollars to the Classroom.'' This piece of legislation…

Just a couple of points, because as we have gone through education with the Crossroads Project, our subcommittee, we have gone to 15 States, we have had 22 different hearings and we have heard this over and over and over from I think over…

It is not just in Colorado, it is not in Michigan, it is in New York, it is in Cleveland, it is in Milwaukee, it is in Georgia, it is in L.A., it is in San Jose. We have been there. We have been in Iowa. You know we have been around the…

What this really does and what we are going to try to do tomorrow is we are going to try to implement the vision for the Education Department that a lot of these people in 1979 said the Education Department should be; that we should…

Maybe you remember the numbers. It is 39 different agencies with over 760 programs. In 1979 they recognized that they had a problem. We have too many programs and we have too many agencies dealing with education. We need to consolidate it…

I go through all of these reports in Washington, all the reports that go into this building, and people read them, they do not really know where your district is in Colorado, they do not know why my district is in Michigan, but they read…

The gentleman has presented a proposal. So your people have done the screening, they have had the dialogue with the department in the different agencies and we tell you you might qualify. So you send your application to Washington, and I…

I think it is about time to wrap up this debate, although we have not had much of a debate. But we ought to also remember and say, you know, why did we do this discussion tonight? We did this discussion tonight, number one, to prepare our…

this letter that you showed me tonight as we were preparing is unbelievable. It clearly points out the difference between a bureaucratic vision of America, where control is moved to Washington, where we believe that this little bureaucrat…

Mr. Speaker, I think as we take a look at this, number one, what we have to recognize is the significant amount of progress that we have made. Again, listening to some of the comments earlier about what happened in the eighties, the tax…

What happens through this process is what you outline. We get to a surplus in 1998, or we get to a balance or close to a balance without taking into account Social Security, which is a very, very positive step. When I first came here in…

We said, this is the Executive Branch. We kind of surveyed their documents and tried to answer the question. How many education programs are there? The answer came back, and a lot of study, and it is 740, 760. We finally said, if you take…

we do know that in many cases we can have the best of both worlds. We proved it in 1997, and we can prove it again that we can reduce spending. Excuse me, we can just slow the rate of growth. We as Republicans have done nothing to cut the…

I do not remember the exact amount of money, but the gentleman looked at it and said, is this really what we need the federal government doing is paying for someone to study the cow gas.