Gilbert Gutknecht

Instead of a future of debt, dependency, and despair, I really think we are giving to our kids a future of hope, growth, and opportunity. Instead of having huge deficits piling up bigger and bigger every year, we are now talking about…

We begin to open the door. What happens right now, to try and explain what happens, for example, and let me take another drug on that list, Cumadin, that is a drug that my 82-year-old father takes. The average price in the United States is…

Welfare reform was not about saving money. It was about saving people, because we all knew that there were too many people that were being trapped in an endless cycle of dependency and despair, and because of our welfare reforms we allowed…

Let us not be too willing. The truth of the matter is, no family should have to visit the undertaker and the IRS in the same week. I do not think most Americans realize that very quickly, and it does not take much of a farm in my part of…

When the American people allowed the Federal Government to get into their paychecks to pay for Social Security, they never told the Federal Government that they could keep the change. That is what was happening. The Federal Government was…

We rise tonight to talk a little bit about what has happened in the last 6 years... We had with us a Contract with America, not a Contract on America... I am happy to report that virtually all of those planks in that contract with the…

virtually everything that has been said this morning about this bill is true, and it is a bipartisan bill. I am delighted with the work that has gone into it, but I reluctantly rise in opposition to the bill. Mr. Speaker, I want my…

Let me clarify that. It is actually in Europe. Those are all European prices. Now the price in Canada, I believe, is about half what it is in the United States. The point is, it is even cheaper in Europe. Now, Synthroid is a drug that my…

it is an incredible tragedy in America today that the IRS knows more about one's personal finances many times than one's spouse. Which leads me to the next point. I hope we have made some progress in terms of simplifying this Tax Code. But…

On the tax side, it all fits with the total budget plan. I only wish that he were here tonight. I remember so many nights doing special orders with Congressman Mark Neumann of Wisconsin. He has left us now, he decided to run for the other…

This administration has had 8 years to deal with this issue and what they have given senior citizens most are these threatening letters. I mean, hundreds of thousands of seniors have received these threatening letters from our own FDA…

In many respects what we have done since 1994 was to reverse sort of the unwritten rule of Washington, which had become almost an epidemic; and the unwritten rule was that no good deed goes unpunished. If families stayed together, as the…

Every Sunday, families sit around their coffee tables and their kitchen tables and they clip over 80 million coupons out of the Sunday paper, worth an average of 53 cents, and that is how they balance their budgets every single week. They…

Right now no one would buy it. But when is the best time to buy a commodity? When the price is low. We should be buying sugar right now, and we should sell it when the price starts to go back up. That makes sense. That is supply…

I will not be as passionate as the previous speaker. I was just sitting here listening to that speech and the other speeches thinking about what a wonderful place this is, because last night, I should not even say last night, earlier this…

first of all, I want to clarify something. Section 3 of our bill says including a pharmacist or wholesale importer. We want our local pharmacies to be able to set up correspondent relationships. In terms of the whole issue of people…

Let me give you a simplier quote from Winston Churchill, it is one actually my wife needlepointed for me on my office wall, and it is simple, it says, ``Success is never permanent. Failure is never fatal. The only thing that really counts…

But the other thing I wanted to mention about Governor Carlson, he said something really profound; and that is that, for too long in public education and education in general, we have measured quality education by inputs. And he sort of…

today I rise to speak again about an issue, that, as Members go back to their districts and have town hall meetings, I am certain they are going to hear about. The issue I want to talk about this afternoon is the issue of outrageously high…

This really is the second great day in a row for American farmers. Yesterday we passed PNTR, which will give us, our farmers better access to markets in China. Today we have a conference committee report that was signed by all 18…

I hope the people at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue would realize this is a very important vote. If it is left to some other people to define the terms and conditions of this debate, we could lose. I do not mean just we who support…

I look at this system that we have today, the way we put a budget together, the way we are going to spend $1.83 billion this year, I look at that and I say, there must be a better way. Because, essentially, what we have now is we have no…

I thank the Chairman and applaud the committee for including funding for a new National Guard Training and Community Center in Mankato, MN, in this year's military construction bill. For the information of Members, the Mankato Training and…

Today is National Teacher Day. Every day of every week in the school year our children are influenced by their teachers. In my district back in Minnesota, we have a number of excellent professional teachers who every day give their all to…

I want to talk tonight about prescription drugs and, most importantly, about prescription drug prices. We have had some discussion. The good news is, I think here in Washington, that there is a growing bipartisan feeling that we need to do…