Martin Sabo

Mr. Speaker, I wish I could be here today to say that I could vote for this bill. I cannot, and I hope I will be able to when it comes back from conference committee. Mr. Speaker, let me focus on one program that I think has the potential…

it is my privilege to participate in the celebration of Black History Month this year by honoring two extraordinary civic leaders of Minnesota. I rise today to honor Cecil Newman and Gleason Glover, both of whom were influential and…

Today we will debate legislation to radically change our welfare system. We will hear a lot about the fundamental principles that should govern the way we help those truly in need. And while I agree with those who say our welfare system…

Mr. Speaker, there is no denying that we must make needed changes to our welfare system to make it more efficient and fair for the American people. In doing so, we should emphasize personal responsibility, and we should honor work. But we…

is what the gentleman is saying that this bill will mean a significant transfer from Federal resources to obligations on the local property tax?

Madam Chairman, today is a sad day for those of us who support real welfare reform. The Republican bill fails to meet the goal of moving people from the welfare dole to the working rolls. It fails to protect children from the ravages of…

I find it very unfortunate when we compare legal immigrants in this country with prisoners and put them in the same category. In fact I find it sort of personal. My parents were both immigrants to this country. I remember when my mother…

I believe we have spent something like $5.5 billion on R&D on supercomputing through DOD and the NSF since 1991 to make sure that we retain our technological edge in this country. It is a very small industry, very key to our economy, very…

this place always amazes me. Because of President Clinton's program, we had declining deficits for 4 years. Now we have the new Republican plan which amazingly increases the deficit in the next 2 fiscal years. But what is even more…

The motion to instruct does four very important things: It asks the House to agree to the Senate discretionary levels as set by an amendment offered by Senator Domenici in the Senate and agreed to by a 3-to-1 vote in the Senate. This is to…

If our goal is to balance the budget by 2002, this is the alternative that might actually do it. Mr. Chairman, we need a little humility when we project 6 years into the future. Many things can change. But if there is any plan that can…

I hope she grows up in a world where she knows she has to pay her bills, but I also hope she grows up with a sense of obligation and a sense of community that is larger than simply herself or her community or her State, but it also…

I have no problem defending the President's budget versus that of the gentleman from Ohio. The President's is much better, much better for education and training, much better potentially for reforming Medicare in a fashion that will work…

I want to only say it is the President's program that reduced the Federal deficit by more than 50 percent over all the 'no' votes of the Republican, now majority, when they were in the minority. It is the President's program that has…

In 1981 we had similar supply-side economics as the majority is projecting today. In 1981 we were told that by 1984 the budget would be in balance. Instead, we had a deficit of $175 billion. When we were told we should cut taxes and…

I yield myself 1 minute to simply say that was about the most inaccurate description of what has happened I have seen. The fact is the bulk of the new revenues last year applied to changes in the income Tax Code for people with taxable…

Mr. Chairman, here we are again, a repeat of 1995. I represent a party that in 1993 produced real deficit reduction. We did not simply talk about it. We produced it, and the deficit has fallen in half. We come today to face the question of…

Mr. Chairman, I listen to this and I think that anybody who is watching it or listening to it in their office would ask themselves, who should I believe? Now, the last Speaker got up here and said that we ought to stop scaring the seniors…

the Congressional Budget Act sets up procedures to allow the appropriations process to move forward in situations when the budget resolution is behind schedule. I would like to inquire of the Chair whether these procedures have been…

let me indicate that this was a process adopted in 1990 to make sure that appropriations could move forward in the event no budget resolution is adopted. In 1991, April 15 came on a Monday. The allocation to appropriations was filed on…

Now I understand why the gentleman may need this amendment, because of that language. Do I also understand that the Line Item Veto Act does not apply to contract authority in the same fashion as it applies to other discretionary spending?

I would ask the gentleman, why is it the trust fund only pays 50 percent of FAA operating costs, when all the studies show that 85 percent is related to civilian air travel? Has not, in effect, general revenue substantially subsidized the…

But I am just curious, to what degree the line-item veto is different for the direct spending of contract authority versus that of appropriated discretionary funds.

the reality is that if one is trying to achieve a certain deficit target or trying to balance a budget within a specified period of time and one spends more on something, you have to spend less on something else. Those are the simple…

I am just curious, how could this bill not have the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 apply to it.