For the record, for the fiscal year 2001, the Treasury has already spent $144 billion on interest on the national debt. That is the first 5 months of this year. Contrast that with fiscal year 2000, the Treasury spent $362 billion on…

The promise made during the Reagan years was that that $1 trillion would be set aside. That promise was never kept in the Reagan years, it was never kept in the Bush presidency, it was never kept in the Clinton presidency. The question is…

If I can tell you that I had a way to quit wasting $1 billion a day of your tax money, I think you would be excited about it. It is that easy. We just pay off the national debt. Each day this Nation squanders $1 billion in interest on the…

Mr. Speaker, I hope during the course of this debate someone will explain to me how a Nation that is $5.7 trillion in debt; a Nation that squanders $1 billion a day in interest on that debt; a Congress that during their lifetimes saw the…

Mr. Chairman, for the past half of a century people wearing the uniform of the United States of America in federally-owned buildings have been telling young 18-, 17-, 19-, and 20-year-old enlistees that if they served their country…

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…

Usually it is some poor uneducated kid from the Colombian countryside, and I get every indication that they expect American kids to fight in a war they will not fight in and the American taxpayers to pay for a war that they will not pay…

on a daily basis I hear my colleagues, both Democratic and Republican, lament the fact that Americans are deployed all around the world, usually without congressional approval. I asked the Committee on Rules to approve an amendment that…

we have been involved in a long debate today about what exactly our Nation should do on the war on drugs. There are some who advocate spending a great deal of money and possibly using the Armed Forces of the United States in the war in…

there is a line from a very popular song, ``Harvest for the World.'' It keeps asking the question rhetorically, why do those who pay the price come home with the least? When it came time to balance the budget this year, it was done at the…

On the 29th of September, 1.4 million Americans will go to the mailbox looking for their paycheck. They are the young people who serve in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines. It will not be there because the same people who…

Mr. Chairman, let me close by thanking the gentleman from California for what he did back in April, which was to force the 435 elected officials, not one of us was appointed, not one of us was annointed, every one of us begged for this…

of the many books that have been written about the failed American policy in Vietnam I think one of the most damning was a book called ``Dereliction of Duty.'' It talks about how the generals and admirals who comprised the Joint Chiefs of…

Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing about all of the money for defense in this bill. Let me remind my colleagues that less than 2 percent of the $507 billion that goes into this bill is for defense. That is a pretty sorry trade-off. Less than 2…

I wonder how many of my colleagues would sign a $100,000 mortgage without reading it. I wonder how many of them would take out a $10,000 business loan without reading the terms. I wonder how many of my colleagues would profess to tell…

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…

Hurricane Georges will undoubtedly hit either his congressional district or mine. We have reached the decision that the best place for us to be tomorrow with is with our families and with our constituents. Our Nation is $5.5 trillion in…

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…

earlier today we voted to increase the effort on the war on drugs by about $2 billion. We have in different States, including my home State of Mississippi, some of the toughest laws on Earth with regard to drug dealers, a law that with…

I find myself in a situation where I will be voting against the bill that I have cosponsored. At this moment, I am not allowed to ask unanimous consent to have my name removed, but I do think it is important that I explain my actions. When…

I would like to tell my fellow members that this could well be the tale of two Favres. A few years ago, after the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFL championship game on a Sunday, the following Friday, I visited a…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to commend the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) for his efforts to encourage others to vote with him. The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) are probably right when…