Just to close, again quoting from this booklet, it talks about the need for grass roots involvement, and it talks about the army of people at the grass roots level and what we need. It talks about this army is arming itself with…

It was cuts off of projected spending, not cuts off of--what historically I have always said is, you are spending this much this year, and a cut means next year you will be spending a little bit less.

If we cap Federal spending at a rate of 1.5 or 2 percent, we could achieve a balanced budget. I think that is an important thing for the American people to recognize. When they here about us cutting spending, again, when we cut spending in…

If there is a single line item in the Federal budget that is 100 percent waste, fraud, and abuse, it is interest on the national debt. Our Government's interest payments on its debt, like personal interest payments on credit card debt, do…

Thank you. It is good to be here tonight and talk about what we are actually going to try to accomplish tomorrow. I think tomorrow is going to provide many of us in the House a fantastic opportunity by signing the discharge petition, which…

What we do is cut off projected spending, so I anticipate one of these years we are going to blow projected spending up, really make it look high, and then we are going to come back and say we just had the biggest budget cut in history…

Only having been here 16 months, all the critical votes, we always lose by about 10 to 13 votes, the votes that would change the way that we do business. The only thing that I think really changed was the work that my colleague from…

So what this bill will allow us to do is come back and take bits and pieces of that bill, find those elements where we have enough votes to pass the spending cuts. We will then implement those. Plus, it will provide for a wide range of…

I studied political science. I graduated back in 1974. I studied the Rules Committee. I think if textbooks were written today, the definition in and the power of the Rules Committee would be described much differently today than it was…

Yes. Lots of innovation going on. I think my colleagues have to take a look at we are trying to solve a complex problem. It has a very human impact, and we have to ask the question: When you're thinking of needing a creative solution, you…

And wellness is just--a wellness program is just one element of innovation in health care that is in many ways sweeping the country. Has it gotten and solved all the problems? No. But is it on the right track, and is there more hope for…

What they are doing is they are educating their employees not only to help their business, to control costs, but more importantly they are improving the lives of their employees by having their employees understand how to live healthy…

They could treat health care costs as a fixed cost and probably have the same competitive, you know, it would not improve or detract from their competitive position. But as they saw health care costs rise, they said, ``We need to…

I was excited to tackle a very difficult job, a challenging issue that is a nationwide problem. And I thought that maybe we will take some of the same types of approaches in Congress that I am familiar with in the private sector. When you…

That is absolutely true. The irony now is, again when you are not benchmarking off the best, what are we benchmarking off of? We are benchmarking off of mediocrity. We are on the path today of benchmarking 14 percent of our gross domestic…

Right. Today at noon we got an 800-page chairman's mark, which is not the President's bill, it is not any of the other bills that have been introduced. But it comes on our desk and says, ``Here is 800 pages. Why don't you read it, and on…

We have to recognize that what we are doing in health care in 1994, while we are concerned with what health care will look like in 1995 and in 1997, in reality what we are doing is we are going to be creating the framework and the…

I rise tonight in support of the Michel substitute to H.R. 6, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. I appreciate the opportunity we have had to openly and fully debate this issue. We have made a number of improvements over the last…

I want to express my strong support for the Barton-Tauzin substitute which requires a balanced budget in 1997 and includes a cap on taxes. During the course of this debate, I have heard many argue that a balanced budget amendment is not…

today I rise in support of the three real balanced budget amendments, the Stenholm-Smith, the Kyl, or the Barton balanced budget amendments. It is time that we really address the problem. It is interesting for me as I listen to the debate…

Mr. Chairman, I would like to offer my support for Mr. Barrett's amendment to the Drug Free Schools and Community Act. This amendment addresses two areas that are of great concern to my district and the State of Michigan. First, this…

80 percent of the American people no longer trust the work that goes on in this House. It is the responsibility of this House to monitor the actions of its Members, to monitor the actions of its different functions. I am personally…

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the home school-private school freedom amendment. As I listen to the debate on H.R. 6 I hear much debate about how to make the schools better, most of that information coming from the people and the…

I think it is time to bring some focus back to the issue. Reflecting back on this now I am saying we have heard that the time has come to now deal with this issue. I think we are long past the time to deal with this issue. We should have…

I think the real statement here, I think, is we are talking about, I think, what the problem we are facing is that we are stating almost as a fact the allegations are true; and all we are seeking for is that the House be given the…