Gene Taylor

I know that most Americans are at work right now. Some of you are watching. If you care about your country, you have got to be upset that in almost a little over 2 years almost $1 trillion has been added to the national debt. To make a…

To the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), if I had voted to stick these children with that bill, I would be as ashamed to look at their faces as the gentleman is. I did not vote to stick these kids with that bill.

I regret that we really do not do enough. We are now down to a fleet of about 300 ships. And at the rate we are going, we are on our way to a fleet of 140 ships. Fleet age used to be about 30 years. We are now down to keeping them for…

I met a kid from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. His last name is Rhodes. I asked him should we be here... I am keeping women from getting raped. I am keeping children from getting murdered. I am keeping old folks from getting drug out into…

Again, as a part of that letter, I would like to hear the Secretary's response because I would sure as heck hope that we do not have to wait another year before some of these injustices are finally made right. I thank you very much for…

If I may, since I have seen a tendency for some people in the bureaucracy of government to somehow lose sight of the value of our veterans, would you consider a letter to that extent to the Secretary? The Secretary has got a lot of things…

Mr. Speaker, it is a sad fact, but a fact, that in the past year a biological attack on the United States has gone from ``what if'' to ``what is next.'' The person who perpetrated the anthrax attacks that have killed about five people in…

In the 1,300 days that you have been Speaker, you will not let us vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, yet you have added through your leadership $511,040,208,939 to the Federal debt. That is more debt than was…

We can rescind the tax cuts that have deprived us of $60 billion in revenue since they were implemented, and I will vote to do that in a heartbeat.

I am adamantly opposed to base closures. After the first three rounds of base closure, we cannot name one weapons system that has been purchased with base closure money. We cannot find one general, one admiral, one Secretary of Defense…

I wish I could have kept NAFTA from coming to the floor because it has lost so many jobs for my fellow Mississippians and every American. I wish I could have kept portions of that tax bill that saw to it that half of the $1.2 trillion in…

If we should have been embarrassed for Congressmen writing checks on money that was not there, should we not be ashamed that we are passing tax cuts on a day when we owe the Social Security system $1.1 trillion? We have taken their money…

I would counter by saying, and probably shocking you when I told you that the most wasteful thing our Nation does, we squandered $1 billion yesterday, the day before that, the day before that, tomorrow, and every day of the rest of our…

The most wasteful thing this Nation does is to squander $1 billion a day each and every day on interest on the national debt. We did it yesterday. We did it the day before that, the day before that. We will do it tomorrow and we will do it…

Let me say that in regard to the gentleman's comments from Mississippi, he spoke very eloquently, but he said that during his lifetime, a great deal of that debt was accumulated during his lifetime. I might add that a great deal of that…

There is no $5 trillion surplus. What we have in this Nation is a $5,735,859,380,573.98 debt. That is as of the end of last month. We hear from so many of our colleagues that the debt is being paid down; the debt is being paid down. I…

For the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood), the good doctor, I would remind him that, again, article 1, section 8 calls upon the Congress to defend the Nation. Article 1, section 9 says that no money may be drawn from the Treasury except…

What is interesting today is what is not being said. Our Nation is $5.7 trillion in debt. Five trillion dollars' worth of that debt was acquired by Congress in our lifetimes. Most of it since 1980. We are squandering a billion dollars a…

Mr. Chairman, keeping our word to our Nation's military retirees is not an option. Ten Members of Congress have cosponsored this amendment. They are the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Pickering), the gentleman from Maryland (Mr…

I am disappointed also that the administration has not been more helpful. But a reading of the Constitution will tell both of us that no money may be drawn from the Treasury except by an appropriation by Congress. Just because the…

Again, Mr. McCollum, I want to commend you for the parts of the bill that you did pass. I also want to point out that we had an opportunity, since the gentleman from Ohio mentioned demand, to require drug testing for all Federal employees…

This is a democracy. We are a work in progress. If during the course of the debate of this bill, if during the conference the gentleman thinks it needs to be perfected, I would welcome that. But we have to start somewhere.

It can be done at any time as a condition of employment, just as my daughter, the college athlete, is subject to a random drug test and it is on a regular basis a condition of an athlete at the college.

Right now, we have no means of asking someone who shows up at work apparently stoned out of their mind, there is absolutely nothing right now their supervisor can do. I would like to give him the opportunity to say, I think you ought to…

Mr. Chairman, a tragic event has occurred in my congressional district, in my hometown; and I am requesting a leave of absence for Friday and the balance of the week, as the eyes of the country turn toward my hometown of Springfield where…