David Minge: “There is a fair amount of cynicism and I would say even despair among young people. They feel they are paying in, it is…”

I joined 30 Democrats in casting a controversial vote last month. I voted to send the Starr report to the Committee on the Judiciary without strict time or subject matter restrictions. I was committed to avoiding partisanship. Tragically…

today, we have seen quite a transformation of the nature of the debate. I think all of us remember the debate from yesterday, the day before. There was a great deal of anguish over how we would support education in this country. Would…

That is exactly my point. We are corrupting the process here to be able to boast that we have done something that has not quite been achieved. I think that is one tragedy. The second is, we have not even talked here in our discussion about…

Mr. Chairman, this proposal that we are considering this afternoon gives us in the House of Representatives an opportunity to move ahead with a very ticklish task of developing a budget and trying to improve the rigors of the budget…