I think the real focus here is on controlling spending. Even the gentleman was using the term reducing spending. We are not reducing spending. The best we can hope for is to slow the growth of spending. If we can slow the growth of…

With Social Security. So taking Social Security out, it would have been close to $400 billion annually. So we get almost a real surplus, and next year we probably will. We are able to do all of those tax cuts that the gentleman outlined…

When I go to my town hall meetings and talk to my constituents and say, would you like the growth rate to be a little bit more than inflation, because we are really doing good things with your money out here in Washington, it is kind of…

The one we paid for, the one where the regime, members of the group that were part of the ticket that won the election are still running the Teamsters. Think about it. They were part of the fraudulently elected leadership. They are still…

the Justice Department, Miss Reno, has now opened a 90-day investigation into testimony of certain members of the President's staff regarding their testimony to the Senate committee, in regards to specific testimony on their involvement in…

Martin Davis, one of the three people who pled guilty, barred from work with the Teamsters and fined $204,000; Jere Nash, barred from work with the Teamsters, fined $10,000; Michael Ensara barred from working with the Teamsters and fined…

Yes. We invited the gentleman to participate at our hearing and he indicated that if he came to the committee, he would invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment and he would refuse to reply; going to your chart, he would refuse to reply…

That is right. That is why there is a tremendous opportunity to increase spending or to increase the effectiveness of our current spending without spending any more money. The issue here for so many of our programs, I want to give you one…

We find out that it goes through 39 different agencies, hundreds of different programs, and we find out that we lose about 30 to 40 cents of every dollar. We lose it because of the bureaucracy here in Washington.

It only took them 15 months to update the web page of trend setter companies. I just want to know how much money we are spending on a program like that. The gentleman and I both know there are tremendous opportunities here in Washington to…

if you take a look at spending growth, I just want to point out we are still, I think, growing faster than what you and I might think is necessary.

So they are serving two masters. Really the school administrators should be not serving a master but should be working with the parents and the community leaders and their community designing school programs that are most appropriate for…

Some of us came in 1993 and really believed that we had to control the growth in spending. Actually, the gentleman has other charts, probably back in the office, but they show that if we would have just for a number of years controlled the…

I actually had an interesting case in my district last year. I visited a number of plants in my district, and I remember the date because it was the date we started the Teamsters investigation. Talk about waste. That is $20 million that…

We have held hearings in 16 different States. We asked that basic question. We asked them, what value is Washington adding to your educating your kids locally? The answer came back, we like your money, but other than that, you are not…

What you find, we do not know anything about what needs to happen in those schools compared to the parents and the teachers and the administrators who have come in and have testified. And they are passionate about their kids. We have seen…

They want it to go down significantly. We can make it happen just by making government more efficient.

Before I leave, I would just like to thank the gentleman for leading this discussion tonight. We really now are at the threshold of putting in place a real plan to ensure that future generations will not have to increase taxes to maintain…

The reason they do not believe that government should grow at the rate of inflation is that, when they get their paycheck at the end of every week, they find that 40 percent of it is going to government at one level or another, and if we…

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Just to clarify some of the remarks from my colleague who sits on the subcommittee. ``Close to impairing an investigation.'' Give me a break. We went through negotiations and discussions with the Southern District in New York. We never…

I believe it is time for the good members of this Union to rise up in revolt. This Union has been run by a small group for their own benefit. I want to hear what the membership thinks. It is time for the good members to rise up and revolt…

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