Gilbert Gutknecht

If the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann] would yield, I think that there are plenty of examples. The gentleman from Wisconsin has illustrated one. But I think perhaps even to the point, we are paying to rebuild villages and countries…

As I have said before, and one of the things I really like about the budget plans that the gentleman and I have worked on, and frankly the gentleman from Wisconsin has done a lot more of the work than I have, but as a famous architect from…

We are certainly in a wonderful position. We are given a golden opportunity. We are at relative peace and relative prosperity here in this country. If we cannot balance the budget and save Social Security now, I do not know when we will.

To change the subject slightly, there was a Pepsi commercial that used to say life is a series of choices. And really Congress is about making choices. We may have to have some different priorities. It may mean that we will have to delay…

we talk about the 104th Congress as being a historic Congress. Well, we have an opportunity in this Congress to do something historic as well: to present the American people with an honest and responsible balanced budget plan. The…

It is interesting that some of our colleagues, who like to quote our Founding Fathers when it fits their purposes, tend to forget that when Jefferson said that, he did not just mean it for those people in those times. He meant it for all…

Now they may not pay it directly, they may not pay it in direct taxes, but they pay it one way or the other. They pay it in the price they pay for a loaf of bread, when they want to buy a car, when they want to buy something else for the…

You gentlemen are right on the money. I want to point out a couple of things, and I want to congratulate both of you. I do not know of any members of the Committee on the Budget who have worked harder to try to preserve the American dream…

And once you start a new program you create a new constituency and that is one thing that if we have the courage to stand up and say no to any new programs, if the President wants new programs then he is going to have to find other…

I think I know who said that, and I think he served in the Continental Congress, and I think he helped draft our Declaration of Independence. That was the ethic in those particular days. I believe his name was Thomas Jefferson.

Well, I would have to say it this way, that I was one of those who was not all that eager to go along, and it was guilt that got me to go to Hershey, PA. It may have been the chocolate that kept me there after the first several hours. But…

I want to say, in part, with the spirit of what transpired in Hershey, PA, that we do look forward to an honest and civil debate about the great issues facing this country, and nothing can be more important than stopping the business of…

And that affects families. That affects their ability to buy, their ability to buy new homes, remodel homes. I want to point out one other thing, I want to get Mr. Pappas back involved in this discussion a bit, too, but this chart sort of…

under both sets of scoring, and I think that is an accurate point, both the Congressional Budget Office and OMB acknowledge that in the first year, and this is really the only budget that counts for this Congress, is the budget we are…

But we have had more than our share of fisticuffs that were associated with the debate here on the floor. We have also had periods where there was consensus building, cooperation, and much more agreement and ability to work together in a…

I certainly did not want to suggest that we are going to eliminate important programs that Americans count on. But I do want to make the point that there is an enormous amount of duplication, and there are a lot of programs that the…

I think it is very graphic when you explain this to schoolchildren. I think most Americans can relate to credit card debt. Every so often we read about someone or we hear about a friend or a neighbor or maybe it is us where we get into…

More important even than that, Congressman Pappas, is it will help those people. We passed very important welfare reform last year and it is already beginning to show some benefits. We are seeing welfare rolls going down. I have been doing…

Mr. Speaker, today, I am pleased that the House is giving final consideration to a H.R. 3068, a bill to repeal the corporate charter of the Prairie Island Dakota Community in Minnesota. The Senate added two noncontroversal amendments to…

I think it was Mark Twain who said, ``Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, jealousy may attack it, but in the end there it is.'' I think if the American people will take just a few minutes to examine what we promised 2 years…

I think sometimes our critics here in the House, and some of the folks in the media, sometimes have tended to say that, well, we cannot balance the budget and provide tax relief at the same time. And I think the beauty of the budget plan…

in November 1994 the American people sent a very clear message and Republicans were elected to restore the bonds of trust between the American people and their Government. We have cut spending and are continuing on the path to a balanced…

John Adams said that our Constitution was intended for a moral and religious people. It would be wholly inadequate for any other. I think they understood, and I think we understand, and I think the American people understand the morality…

And the other point that our colleagues sometimes make is they say you are cutting Medicare to offer tax cuts to the rich. And I will tell you, that is one charge that absolutely makes me furious. But they know, we know, and I think…

And it was based on the basic notion that families can spend this money far more efficiently than the Federal bureaucracy. And I doubt if there is anybody in this room or anybody in Congress or anybody who is watching this at home who…