Gene Taylor

But, please, the American public needs to know we are not there yet. I agree with the gentleman that we have a huge surplus that we are spending on government spending. But if we take all the spending and all the tax revenues, then we are…

I am not going to argue with the gentleman on the tax increases, but it is misleading to the American people to say that this Congress has passed a balanced budget. They did not.

Correct me, but my colleague's resolution says that they should withdraw within 60 days. It is not a question whether or not they should be there. He is mandating that they would withdraw. I am not going to do that. I am not going to pull…

As we debate this, there are 20,000 Puerto Ricans serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. In this century, 200,000 have taken the pledge to defend our country. As recently as the Vietnam war, almost as many Puerto Ricans as…

Mr. Speaker, we have a constitutional crisis in our country. In addition to everything that the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] said, which was on the mark, and everything that the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Pallone] said that…

As I said, every bill that we have voted on is trying to affect Chinese policy. This bill is asking the Secretary of the Treasury to take steps to affect Chinese policy. My amendment asks the Secretary of the Treasury to take substantial…

Reclaiming my time, the new majority came to town promising to balance the budget, and yet this year's budget according to the Congressional Budget Office, will spend $270 billion more than we collect in taxes. If we can cut out anything…

It will cost the Americans more. And they keep saying they have a 7-year plan to balance the budget, but the first step is a step backward, not a step toward balancing the budget, a step toward larger deficit.

At the time John Kennedy said that, the Nation's annual operating deficit was $10 billion a year, Now it is $200 billion a year. At the time that John Kennedy said that, our Nation's total debt was about $500 billion. Today it is almost $5…

If I may, there are things that are more important than the Easter break. Passing well-thought-out legislation is more important than the Easter break, and I would sure hope the Republican leadership would keep that in mind.

Reclaiming my time and addressing the author of this measure, the sponsor of this measure, would you accept that as the definition of fair market value? The fair market value at the time that it was purchased?

Reclaiming my time, let me ask the gentleman this: Is it fair market value if the 1 dollar an acre that the man bought it for during the Depression, is it fair market value for the $5,000 an acre that the man from the Midwest and does not…

But for the sake of getting this on the record, it is not the gentleman's intention through this legislation to ask the people of Iowa, the people of Kentucky, all those people who live in areas that do not flood, to subsidize people for…

I say to the gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms. Kaptur], it has really become apparent to me in phone calls I have had, letters, faxes from around the country that the American people feel powerless against Wall Street. They feel powerless against…

I want to again remind everyone that this was never brought before Congress. The reason it was not brought before Congress is because both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans, knew that had it been brought before Congress, Congress…

The only point I wanted to make, Mr. Speaker, and I wanted to get back as to the very eloquent delivery by the former mayor of Burlington, could he not just vote against the appropriation for this when it comes up?

There are, I believe as many Republican sponsors of this resolution as Democrats. I think that is very important, because I think a number of the Republicans are at odds with what their leadership has done, which is, again, to deprive the…

Ms. Kaptur, is it really fair to say the executive branch did this entirely on their own? Let us go back the 13 months that my friend Mr. Sanders made reference to. What was then minority whip, now Speaker of the House Gingrich's position…

Twenty billion dollars of American tax dollars, and there was not a vote in the Congress of the United States. Is that what you are telling me?

How many times has the President of the United States submitted to the Congress a budget that was even $100 billion within being balanced?

We have a disagreement, and I think those experts also would not accept any challenge, too, where they would personally incur the costs from the flood of lawsuits that the lack of this language would cause.

I say to the gentleman, ``Mr. Shuster, you are a gentleman, and I know that you would in no way ever intentionally mislead anyone. The amendment that I offered does not use the words `Clean Water Act' because I also am not totally in favor…

Mr. Chairman, would either of the gentlemen be willing to pay the cost incurred to the Federal Government out of their pocket, should this be brought to the court by some city that does not want to fulfill its obligation to clean up its…