Gilbert Gutknecht

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…

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…

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…

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?

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…

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…

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…

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…

For Augmentin, a 12-tablet supply of 500 milligram here in the United States we pay an average of $49.50. In Europe, for exactly the same drug, the price is $8.75.

The other analogy about the boats is the story President Kennedy used, that a rising tide lifts all boats. And if we have some fiscal responsibility, as we have seen in the last 5 years, that by properly managing the budget and by…

I remember that, shortly after we came, the Congressional Budget Office gave us a study and a report. They said, if Congress does not get serious about balancing this Federal budget, that by the time children being born today reach middle…

I was surprised to learn how many people in America were paying extra taxes just because they were married. That is just not bad tax policy; that is not just bad family policy. At the end of the day there is something almost fundamentally…

I want to pay tribute tonight to a real American hero, a gentleman by the name of Kurt Warner. The Warner story has been documented in the last week or so by many sports scribes... I guess I have a special feeling for Kurt Warner for a lot…

I want to come back to a couple of points that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford) raised, and I think they are very important points, the first of which is, and many Americans do not know this, that one of the most brilliant…

I want to point out I think whenever we are talking about the budget or making any kind of long-term plans, we have sort of got to look at where we are and where we are going. I think the important thing about this chart, it really points…

Exactly. Now, what the President has proposed, though, is about $30 billion a year of additional spending above and beyond the spending caps that he agreed to. Now, one other point that needs to be made about those two charts. If we abide…

In effect, the top chart is essentially what the congressional leadership budget plan has been agreed to; that we will abide by the spending agreement that we made with the President back in 1997. Even if the President will not, we will…

What it means is that we are virtually guaranteed that our children will have a lower standard of living than we have enjoyed. We can put this in any kind of terms we want, but I think every one of us recognizes that one of the…

By that time, Mr. Speaker, they would be paying a tax rate of upwards of 82 percent just to meet the ongoing needs of the Federal Government and the obligations to Social Security. Now, that is the situation we confronted in 1995. The…

One of the central planks of our Contract with America was real welfare reform that required work and personal responsibility. Three times we passed our plan that gave States wide latitude to reform their systems. Twice the President…

I am not a Supreme Court Justice. I only have one opinion. But in my opinion, any time that States come together to try and create trade barriers, and I might just yield back to the gentleman to ask what is the purpose of the dairy compact…

An important measure was recently passed by this House that begins to liberate American families. Those of us who talk about values like faith, family and personal responsibility must pursue policies that reinforce those values. Allowing…

I was trying to think, how can we use some kind of a prop or some kind of an analogy to demonstrate what this debate is all about. Finally, I came upon it. I asked my staff to go out and see if they could not find a nine foot belt. We…