Harold Volkmer

the upper 2 percent of big farmowners, OK, 2 percent will get 22 percent of the money. It sounds a lot like their tax bill, where 2 percent got 50 percent of the money. This one, 2 percent get 22 percent of the money.

as one who has been here for 19 years and been through different farm bills, I can remember when we had another President by the name of Reagan and a Secretary of Agriculture by the name of John Block. I wanted to let the gentleman from…

Except in the current farm program, you have to crop the land in order to participate in the program.

I would just like to take a couple of minutes to point out something, I think, for Members who have not served on the Committee on Agriculture and do not know that much about farm legislation. The old adage has been said here that this…

I did not come here to talk about this. I listened to the gentleman from Florida, and we have a couple more from Florida maybe going to speak on the same issue, and I hear the criticism of the President on the Cuban situation, yet I do not…

It is interesting to see how this House has been run. We have not done very much. We took all last year, we ended up doing less than what they have done all the way back to 1933. We have not really done the Nation's businesses. We have…

I offered an amendment to get rid of the three-entity rule, the one that under that bill gives the big cotton farmer down in Texas and other places, and some of the rice farmers, $80,000 a year, folks, for 7 years. They do not even have to…

I have been listening to some of the debate that is going on over here, and it is really amazing to me that we have adults here masquerading as Congressmen that will not accept the responsibility for their own actions. I can remember back…

Well, there is a great deal of uncertainty out there among all of the farmers. We have not done a farm bill. There was a welfare bill for big farmers put in the so-called Debt Ceiling Reduction Act that the President vetoed. It is my…

I want the people to know that this bill really is one that I am going to vote for because I see the need for it, but I am going to hold my nose real good when I vote for it, because it smells, it stinks for what it does to education. It…

I would like to discuss, if the gentleman from Texas would be so kind to do so, the statement in here about the farm bill and emergency legislation. What emergency legislation would that be? I am on the Committee on Agriculture, and I…

I would just like to mention one other thing, folks, that is going on here that they are planning to do, this great majority that is running this Congress. They cannot get a dang thing done. I could use a harder word but it is not…

the other evening, on Tuesday night, the President said, ``Let us work together,'' on many things. Now is the time to work together to make sure that we increase the debt limit that needs to be done so that the financial conditions of…

They were due to be done by September 30. We all know that. The American public does not know. They think that we as Democrats have had something to do with the closing of the Federal Government. We do not have anything to do with it. We…

Well, I object strongly that you blame the President for something that needs to be solved right here in this body and with the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and with the Committee on Agriculture in the Senate, because that is…

here we go again. There are not many on the floor again. We are not doing anything. Day before yesterday we did a few minor bills. Yesterday we did one conference report that everybody basically agreed with, very few Members disagreed…

last night the President mentioned that we need to do welfare reform, and I agree with him. This morning the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, on one of the morning talk shows, when asked about welfare reform, said that the President…

Members of the House, this morning during my 1-minute speech, I chastised the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, for not telling exactly the truth this morning on one of the talk show programs when he was being interviewed in regard to…

lunacy still prevails in the House of Representatives under Speaker Newt Gingrich. Since December 15, we have had Federal employees locked out, cannot go to work. We have Federal employees that are working but are not going to get paid…

as one who has prided himself for all my 19 years here of having what I consider a 100-percent pro-life record, I am dismayed and amazed that the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston] would bring to this floor a bill that will permit…

Mr. Speaker, the courts have decided, under the 1995 law, the States are required to fund the Medicaid abortions for those provisions. That is the status of it right now. In the 1996 law that we passed in this House, we said that the…

back last month I made a speech on this floor about this being the biggest show on Earth, that Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey did not hold a candle to this place. Well, it is not even a good show any more. It is a house of lunatics…

I wish to first thank the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Yates] for giving me 4 minutes, and I have to agree with everything that the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] has just said, and I would like to maintain that thought just a little…

I wish to commend the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Buyer], who just spoke, for his steadfastness for an effort to balance the budget, but I must disagree with him to the extent as far as he will go by saying that we must have a vision, and…

earlier today during a one-minute I mentioned that what I see going on in this Congress and this House is just pure lunacy. You know, under Webster's Dictionary, lunacy is intermittent derangement. I recognize that here. It is insanity…