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As our Nation's youth head back to school, our attention is obviously focused on education. I would like to focus the national spotlight on one university in Missouri's Ninth Congressional District. Mr. Speaker, I have the distinct honor…
I was asked by a constituent if I could only pass one bill in this Chamber, what would that one bill be. And I say, well, if I could write it and could make sure that it would actually be enacted into law, it would be this: that the…
I was in Wentzville, MO, on the eastern side of my district at the high school, and it was pointed out to me that in a normal day, if you just consider your actions of a normal day, when you wake up and grab a first cup of coffee you are…
I think the word that the gentleman used, ``optimism,'' I think that is probably what I heard most often from the folks that I had a chance to visit with. All the polls and surveys that these consultants and political pundits seem to find…
continuing the tradition that we have tried to begin as newly elected Republican Members focusing on positive success stories across the district, as you know just as our Nation's children are returning to schools all across this great…
I think, Mr. Speaker, to those naysayers that have picked apart these past weeks' aspects of what we have done here, we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Clearly we are not here to rest on past accomplishments. We have a…
I think a point that needs to be made regarding the numbers on the chart that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Blunt] has before him is that these numbers, this is not sham accounting. This is not cooking the books, as the gentleman from…
this week there is much discussion, there is much speculation about the negotiations that are ongoing between the President and congressional leaders in the House and Senate. Hanging in the balance, Mr. Speaker, are the prospects of a…
Unfortunately, the earned income credit is rife with fraud and waste and abuse. In fact, the IRS even estimates that the rate of fraud and error was over 20 percent. Essentially, out of every $5 then in the earned income credit that the…
If the gentleman would leave that chart up, the one entitled ``Family Tax Burden.'' I had a question at one time during a radio town hall meeting regarding tax relief and was taking a variety of calls. I mentioned that the average family…
I strongly support the tax package that came out of our Committee on Ways and Means. I am privileged to serve on that committee. When I go back home, I am inevitably asked the question, usually by high school students, 'What is the…
I think the gentleman has enunciated very eloquently what it is we stand for and why it is that we sought office and what we are doing to accomplish the goals that many of us stood for and campaigned on. It is especially poignant, I think…
in addition to the letters and support of relief from this punitive estate tax, has the gentleman received any letters urging us to continue the estate tax? Has the gentleman received any letters from his district in New Jersey urging us …
obviously the topic of choice is the upcoming vote. I have been sitting here patiently for about an hour and a half waiting our turn for this special order and have consistently heard on the other side of the aisle about these tax breaks…
A couple months ago I was able to participate in a field hearing that was actually conducted by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Talent], who is the chairman of the Committee on Small Business. This was a field hearing in St. Charles…
the letters that you have with you and I think probably each of us have received from our individual constituencies typical letters of that; this is America, the backbone of our economy, small business, family farms who are crying out for…
I appreciate my friend from Montana and his eloquent words, particularly with the AMT provision as it was penalizing farmers, the IRS, as you pointed out, changing rules in the middle of the game. I know that this actually occurred in a…
As we were awaiting this special order, I know there were at least half a dozen colleagues on the other side of the aisle who, again, were trying to turn this whole debate into class warfare. The facts are simple. Mark Twain, his birth…
Our colleague from Arkansas further pointed out that this family in the portrait that he had, that they paid the payroll taxes and certainly paid taxes toward Medicare and somehow that that ennobled the family to receive these income tax…
Letting Americans keep more of their money sounds like common sense to most of us, especially those of us who are newly elected Members. People in Washington should never ever forget that tax money belongs to the taxpayers and not to the…
as Members know, this is National Small Business Week. I want to take time out to recognize the thousands of men and women back home in Missouri's Ninth Congressional District who run and own small businesses. I cannot think of a more…
House Concurrent Resolution 84 will never become a household phrase, does not fall trippingly off the tongue, but that is the resolution that passed early this morning, about 3:30 this morning, by a 333 vote to 99 margin. This is a plan…
the newly elected Republican Members of this body have faithfully and dutifully come to the floor each week to talk about positive solutions to some of the Nation's problems. We have done this since February and we have talked about ideas…
Well, just as Mr. Armstrong uttered those words that are etched in history, ``one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind,'' I am hopeful that what we accomplished early this morning as far as this bipartisan agreement will be at…
I mentioned to them that, if we took the Federal debt, this big number, and if we divided it up by every man, every woman, every child, every ninth-grader across this country, that each one would owe us or have to pay somewhere in the…
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