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I think the two fundamental questions, and this comes up in my town meetings as well, and I am sure you hear it, and it comes down to two very important questions. The first question is who decides? Is it going to be the Federal Government…
If this is an innocent bureaucratic snafu, why is it that the bureaucrat who was most responsible when he was called before the Senate, why did he take the fifth amendment? There are a lot of unanswered questions and I think the American…
That is a good point. Many of our friends on the other side, who you would consider liberal, joined us in that particular vote, and hopefully this Congress is going to have another opportunity to revisit that issue and we are going to have…
Well, I think it ties together with what we are talking about, because when we are advancing what I think is a commonsense agenda, and I think it is commonsense whether you are from North Carolina or Georgia or Minnesota, of putting the…
But the story gets twisted. The unfortunate thing is the story gets twisted somehow between what we are trying to do and as it goes through this cycle here and as it gets filtered through sometimes the dominant media culture out there that…
It is almost 1984. It goes back to that book. But I will say this, again, I will close because I know you want to talk about patents. I think it is really refreshing to go home and have town meetings. And, frankly, I think the American…
One of my constituents raised a point that I had forgotten, and that is that a number of years ago a guy by the name of Chuck Colson went to jail for mishandling one FBI file, and he went to jail for 3 years. I think there is an…
But there was a big difference back in the fifties. Most of the families raised their kids on one income. And why couldn't they? They got to keep 95 percent of what they earned. The average family today has to raise their kids on less than…
Mr. Chairman, earlier today we heard a powerful speech from the new prime minister from Israel, Mr. Netanyahu. In it he said that real democracy allows dissent and honest debate, and we are here today to offer some dissent and honest…
I just want to share one other thing that I learned from one of my constituents, and it is a very important thing. He said, this was several months ago when I was home, he said, sometimes, and we get into this, Republican versus Democrat…
during the last campaign, many of us campaigned on the whole issue of term limits, and it is something that a lot of the American people have asked for. In fact, all the polling information demonstrates that between three-fourths and 85…
I want to go over again, and I do understand that there will be cuts as a result of this 1.9 percent reduction, but if we look down the path, sooner or later we are going to have to pay the price for this. If we cannot make $4.1 billion…
Mr. Chairman, some of us were extremely disappointed a few weeks ago when we passed the conference committee report on the budget because in that budget, we reneged on a promise that we made last year and we increased spending by about…
I do not know if anybody read this morning's Washington Post, but there is a great story in there about a doctor who is paid $117,000 a year to sit in an office and see no patients. He is paid by the Federal Government, by the Federal…
I believe that in the last election cycle the people of the United States sent a pretty clear message. I think they wanted us to go to Washington to put the Federal Government on a diet, to balance their budget and to make the Federal…
I just want to reiterate a couple of things that Mr. Kingston has just said. First of all, seniors especially but indeed all Americans have a right to the facts. Frankly I think that there have been too many of these distortions and…
I was in a border State in Minnesota. We have been debating welfare reform for a long time. I think you have characterized it absolutely correctly, that this bill that passed the Wisconsin Legislature, it is a giant step forward in terms…
I would just add to that, the discussion we have had today and we have heard tonight on special orders is really again sort of back to this fundamental debate between those who believe that in the final analysis Washington knows best and…
Why is it that Washington is unable to address and solve a political problem until it becomes a crisis? Why is it that Washington's answer to any problem is to take more in taxes and waste more in spending? Well, they are doing it again…
as I speak, literally millions of Americans are trapped in a cycle of dependence known as the modern welfare state. It is a system characterized by drug abuse, fatherlessness, violence, and the wholesale destruction of the family. The…
today I am pleased to offer H.R. 3068, a bill to repeal the corporate charter of the Prairie Island Dakota Community in Welch, MN. The tribe contacted me last June requesting revocation of their 1934 charter. By law, revoking this…
I rise today with no sense of pride, with actually a sense of trepidation to a certain degree, because I want to talk about something that has been happening and developing over the last year, actually, which culminated yesterday in a vote…
it is no secret that liberal Democrats want to protect big government and that they are addicted to special interest money. But it is interesting to see the lengths to which they will go in order to protect the status quo here in…
we saw during last winter's budget battle that if liberal Democrats down at the White House did not get their way, they simply shut down the Government. They fought with every fiber against saving Medicare, against commonsense tax relief…
It is my pleasure today to pay tribute to a remarkable youngster from my district. His name is Christopher Deufel, and he is the first place winner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy Broadcast Script Writing Contest for the…
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