David Minge

This legislation that is considered in the House of Representatives on September 14, 1999, in my opinion is the most important legislation that we take up in this session. It goes to the heart of the political process in America, the…

On rollcall No. 228, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'

on rollcall No. 232 had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

I am impressed with the gentleman's knowledge of geography. Actually, the community of Windom, Minnesota, is both in my district and where I have had a district office for over 6 years, and it is one of these communities that has an…

I know that in talking with both physicians and with seniors in my area, that often seniors are making a choice between groceries and prescription drugs. I hear this over and over. They are amazed at the cost of prescription drugs. They…

Average annual per capita cost. And one thing I know that the gentleman and I have discussed several times is that over the years this discrepancy between what we experienced certainly in some of the rural areas in the State of Washington…

The State of Minnesota, like several other Midwestern States and the State of Washington, has had a relatively efficient low-cost health care delivery system for many years. When the Medicare program was created, I understand that they…

So it sounds like the discrimination that we have suffered from in our rural areas in the State of Washington would perhaps have just been flipped and we would have had discrimination in the other direction, and instead of solving a…

in the last week there have been some very disturbing announcements about the status of Social Security reform in the 106th Congress, and I would like to express my severe disappointment that the majority leader in the Senate and possibly…

I know that all of us have worked with the USDA, and we know that it has scores of programs. And we have heard from our constituents that they want increases in all of these programs. I do not understand how we can both maintain the…

returning to the crop insurance subject, I certainly am pleased that the Republican budget does allow $6 billion for the first 5 years of the budget cycle, but I would point out that it is a 10-year budget and there is nothing for crop…

I certainly agree. I hope that we will find that Republicans, Democrats, independents join together and rather than this being sort of the political football that it has been in the past, we find a way to get beyond that. One other thing…

There is a fair amount of cynicism and I would say even despair among young people. They feel they are paying in, it is about 12.4 percent in payroll tax for Social Security and that this is a benefit that is for their parents, their…

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…

this evening, I rise to address two subjects which I think are of great importance to our Nation and deserve emphasis here on the floor of the House. The first is the question of our budget policy in Congress and in the United States. The…

The Minnesota-Wisconsin, or the M-W, price for milk is a price that we all know has been the lowest in the country. We have discriminated against the heart of America's dairy production for decades. A Congress which we thought was going to…

I would simply like to emphasize that here we are in the 24th year of a process in which we have required of ourselves a concurrent budget resolution, and this is the first time in 24 years that we do not have one. That is why we have a…

We should not be squandering our time on bills that we know are not going anywhere. The trade bill, which I voted for last night, is not going anywhere, unfortunately. This tax cut bill is not going anywhere, on the other side of this…

I share with the previous Member the commitment to finding a way to reduce taxes. Really the question is, however, not do we have a commitment to reduce taxes and believe that the bill that has been brought up or will be brought up…

I would like to address this body about the condition of the budget resolution that Congress is supposed to have passed several months ago. Indeed, it was supposed to have been completed on April 15th, and, here we are, we are in the last…

I certainly feel that he has accurately identified a problem that we face in this country: How do we deal responsibly with the Social Security Trust Fund and our obligations or the obligations which will be due from that trust fund in the…

It is very important that, in this time of agricultural crisis, that we pull together, that we work on a bipartisan basis, and we try to make sure that the necessary legislative response comes before we adjourn in October. We do not have…

It is now September 10, and we still do not have a budget resolution which is available to guide this body or Congress in the allocation of our Nation's resources. That budget resolution was due April 15. We are now approaching 5 months, 5…

There is no administration that I am aware of in recent history that has been as strong an advocate of trade, liberalization of trade policies, as the Clinton administration, and I think that all of us really ought to respect the record…