Michele Bachmann

Thanks, I appreciate it. I want to go back to a little sign that Louie Gohmert held up at the State of the Union speech, or something, the joint session, that said, ``What plan?'' Remember the President, at the 7-hour infomercial that was…

I think one thing that we have demonstrated very clearly is that those of us on the Republican side of the aisle from the beginning of this debate have always had positive solutions that we have wanted to address. I know Dr. Gingrey has…

That's because no one has seen this bill. It's not online. How do we know that? Today the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Douglas Elmendorf, said, We can't score how much this bill is going to cost. Why? We don't have the…

I believe that viewers may be able to see that on your Web site at king.house.gov. Also it would be available at my Web site as well, which is bachmann.house.gov. We encourage viewers to go and view this document and take a look for…

Exclusively by Democrats. They have been the only ones behind closed doors with these negotiations. So don't for a moment suffer the delusion to think that what's going to happen this Thursday in a 6-hour time period--remember, the…

If I could just respond on the tax portion. Government can directly mandate that you must pay a percentage or a fee, which is a direct tax. But if government requires you to do something or purchase a health insurance policy in conformity…

It eliminates them, and I think one can understand why. We saw a chart or a graph that was recently produced several weeks ago. It plotted all of the private-sector experience in the Presidents from the last 100 years. It showed that in…

If I could add to that, the one thing that doesn't get talked about very much here is the iron ceiling on wages that was contained in this bill. If you have a double-income couple with no kids and if their combined income is $64,000 a year…

It would. And that's what I am so worried about as a tax lawyer, that this will mean diminished opportunities for Americans because we will see increased taxes in defiance of President Obama's promise to the American people.

I come at it a little bit differently. My background is that I am a former Federal tax lawyer, and I see how egregious tax costs can destroy businesses, destroy families, individuals, farms and creativity. And also as a business owner. My…

If the gentleman would yield on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is an extremely important point. Again, the mastermind of 9/11, who achieved his goal of killing 3,000 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center bombing, he got his way. Why…

What we are looking at the President's idea of closing Gitmo is actually a fiction. Gitmo will not be closed. Yes, it may no longer be in its current physical location off of U.S. soil, but Gitmo will simply be packed up into boxes, a…

It seems like it would be an extraordinary waste of resources if that's what we do, create just one more cause of action that would ultimately result, I think, in restricting access to credit for a lot of families.

at about 10:00 p.m. last nite, the text of the $792-billion so-called ``stimulus'' package was finally made available to Republicans. At 11:00 p.m., this 1073-page package was finally posted online for the public to see it. And, votes are…

And I want to thank the stunning representative from Iowa, Mr. King, who is putting this effort together for this hour. There are many of my colleagues who are here, and many more who want to join and add their words to the wonderful…

Thank you, Representative King. Just listening to this very important discussion among all of our colleagues, it just struck me that it seems very telling to me that President Obama, who has strong majorities in both the House and the…

I cannot look 20- and 25-year-olds in the eye and in good conscience say to them, ``This stimulus bill will be good for you.'' It will not. Why? Because kids born during that time period already are inheriting a huge tax bill. Studies have…

I was really struck by that comment that he made. That is a tremendous amount of faith to have in the Federal Government. And it views the Federal Government almost as a Good Fairy, or as the Easter Bunny, or as Santa Claus, that it's the…

I think he has every reason to be very concerned about this Freedom of Choice Act coming before this body, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. Why? Because during the campaign, the President stated quite clearly that he wanted…

I would like to just thank him for the years and years and years of commitment that he has had to the unborn here in America. The unborn have had a friend in Chris Smith. I thank you. That through thick and thin, it seems like we got a lot…

At the very least shouldn't we wait to see how the current $300 billion, yes, billion, should be spent. It's as if the Democrats are predicting that their own program will face a shortfall due to re-defaults or some other course of events…

today I rise to offer a motion which will ensure that parents of children in residential treatment facilities have control over any medication being prescribed to their child. While the bill, as currently written, would require a parent or…

today I rise to offer a motion which will ensure that parents of children in residential treatment facilities have control over any medication being prescribed to their child. While the bill as currently written would require a parent or a…

I rise today to support H.R. 6307, the Fostering Connections to Success Act. This vital piece of bipartisan legislation was designed to make much needed improvements to the child welfare system, focused on some of the most vulnerable among…

These lands are owned by the American people and they are leased out to oil companies or natural gas companies. These oil and gas companies have to pay for these leases. They aren't just given to them free of charge. They have to pay for…