Gilbert Gutknecht

I think the more the American families learn about the facts of this budget, I think the more they are going to like it. Let us look at what it really does. This is a budget that works for every family. The maximum debt elimination; we are…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize and congratulate the National Science Foundation on its 50th anniversary. What the NSF does is very important to all of us and to future generations of America. The National Science Foundation was created…

I know that we all have a lot of other issues going on and a lot of people are not paying attention, but this is a very important point, because last year, about a year and a half ago, an awful lot of employees that worked for a great…

I rise in the uncomfortable position of opposing both the bill and the substitute, and I would like to explain why. I am not an expert on pension policy, but I did serve on the pension commission in the State of Minnesota, and I think I…

tonight we celebrate the 90th birthday of President Ronald Reagan, and I would like to read some lines from a column that appeared on Sunday in the London Times in London, England. It was written by Andrew Sullivan, and frankly I cannot…

I was one who sort of came of age politically under Ronald Reagan, and he was and always will be to me a tremendous teacher of true principles, and he seemed to have a tremendous understanding of the American people. We certainly wish our…

I cannot really understand why these people are so opposed to this bill. In fact, we heard our colleague from New Jersey just a few moments ago say that this would not work. I have to ask, what are we afraid of? What is wrong with allowing…

If I could just say that the two of us came in 1994 and hopefully, with the blessing of our voters in our district, we are going to be back next year to continue to fight in that Teddy Roosevelt tradition, to create more competition…

I think that it has to be about allowing the local pharmacies and other groups to import, but most importantly, if nothing else happens this year, we ought to make it very clear to the FDA that as long as it is an FDA-approved drug, made…

Well, the gentleman has done a great job of setting the stage. In this case, I should say Dr. Ganske. The gentleman probably understands this issue as well as anybody. I sort of fell into it at some of my town hall meetings. Several years…

And I just want to point out that one of the things that many times people inside the bureaucracy will say is, well, we do not have enough staff or we do not have enough money. But the General Accounting Office does not say that in their…

But the interesting thing is, under the Packers and Stockyards Act, as I understand it, actually the USDA has access to that information. Now, I am not saying they ought to share the information from one neighbor to the other, but there…

my experience, I think the gentleman from Iowa is referring to, is that I am a licensed and bonded auctioneer. Yes, I can spit it out pretty fast. I would like to illustrate, 10 years ago, about 80 percent of the livestock in the United…

The truth is we could save at least $1.5 billion a year. And when people talk about the prescription drug problem, the problem is that they always talk about the wrong side first; they always talk about coverage. The real problem is price…

one senior at one of my townhall meetings said it best: if you think prescription drugs are expensive today, just wait until the Federal Government provides them for free. We have got to deal with the price side first. And then when we do…

I think our colleague from Georgia (Mr. Linder) says it best. In many of these issues, it really is about who decides, will it be Washington or will it be the individual. Whether we are talking about education reform, health care reform…

from a budget perspective, last year the Federal Government, through the Veterans' Administration and through other programs that are actually run by the Federal Government, we bought about $5 billion worth of prescription drugs last year…

It was a wonderful trip over there. We cannot help but be proud of the young men and women who serve us in the armed forces and the job that they do, whether it is in Bosnia or Yugoslavia, East Timor, Haiti. We have had so many deployments…

We will have taken four huge pharmaceutical companies, and now we will have one. The net result is they will have greater control over markets and products, and we will see even higher prices. They have made a bad situation worse. Mr…

I think it will only make matters worse. If we were to pursue the Clinton-Gore formula, I think long term, it would drive the price of drugs even higher, even though they are trying to impose a modified form of price controls. I think the…

Call anybody who is involved with hospital administration. Just go ahead and ask them do you think it is a good idea to make the Health Care Financing Administration even bigger and stronger?

Now, you might want to hold the phone back aways because you are going to get an earful of how the cow ate the cabbage. I mean, the people who deal with this powerful bureaucracy today will say the last thing they want to do is make it…

how much is enough? The buzz in Washington is that the President is spoiling for one last fight with Congress over the budget. In fact, White House aides have practically encouraged suspicion that they would like a government shutdown to…

Today the House is taking up a bill which would ensure that 90 percent of next year's budget surplus goes to paying down debt. With this bill, over $600 billion of publicly held debt would be paid down by the end of next year. It would be…

I must say to my friend from Ohio (Mr. Portman), this is not about more computers. It is not about more people. It is about the IRS doing its job. I have here the dictionary definition of vested, and it says, law, settled, fixed or…