I urge a no vote on the rule. There is a crisis of faith in this country. People every 2 years run for office and ask for the privilege to serve in Congress. They say they are going to do things, and when the time comes to do those things…

Tomorrow in Congress Democrats and Republicans alike will vote for a tax reduction. They are going to give the wealthiest contributors a big tax break. They are going to give the smaller contributors a smaller tax break. But when it comes…

I am going to oppose this rule for a number of reasons. But first and foremost, this is supposed to be a democracy. This is supposed to be the place where the Members who were sent here by about 550,000 people, citizens of this country…

Mr. Chairman, I want to encourage my fellow Members to support this measure. As many other people have pointed out, it does not do everything that we would like to do. But in a budget environment where, unfortunately, the only committee in…

I had hoped to sit this one out, but a previous speaker, the gentleman from Georgia, asked where is the outrage. I think after 90 days of session it is high time some of us expressed our outrage. See, for 40 years a group of people much…

today I rise to discuss the ethics charges facing Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House of Representatives. The House Ethics Committee voted 7-1 to reprimand and assess a penalty of $300,000 for Speaker Gingrich. In recommending a sanction…

I want to compliment the Rules Committee for bringing this bill forward today. One of my friends spoke a little earlier and said that Congress cannot determine wealth or it cannot set wages. Yet every year for the 7 years that we have both…

I rise in serious opposition to some remarks that the gentleman from California made. In fact, walking on the floor, I thought I was back in the Mississippi legislature when they were debating not whether or not to increase but whether or…

I rise and ask my colleagues to defeat the previous question. I do so knowing that there are honorable people who serve on the Committee on Rules, and that by and large they try to do the right thing every time. But I can tell my…

I thank the dean of the Mississippi delegation. It is common knowledge that world's populations are moving to the shorelines. Even in this country, well over half of the people in this country live within 50 miles of the coast. Mr…

No one comes here to increase the deficit. No one comes here to dismantle America's might. But just last night, the new majority voted for a budget for the next 2 years that increases the annual operating deficit and in turn the national…

in the past I have supported the Solomon amendment, but as a number of well-attended hearings of this committee pointed out, our Nation does not have the ability to stop a single missile coming from the Soviet Union, the former Soviet…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment which I am offering is included in the chairman's en bloc amendment. The first section of my amendment contains language which requires the Army not later than 180 days after the enactment of the fiscal year…

I would feel a lot better if in speaking to the Senate the gentleman would try to amend this to also call for a two-thirds vote to raise the debt limit for this country. You see, there is something equally as evil as tax and spend, in fact…

I want to thank one of the heroes of D-day for the opportunity, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Gibbons]. When the new majority came to power 1 year ago, they promised the American people that Congress would change its ways, that we would…

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…

gentlemen and ladies, last year, during the welfare debate, I heard speaker after speaker come to this floor and say that we had to end the practice of paying people to do nothing, that we should no longer pay people not to work. Something…

I hope my friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], will listen, because the Department of Defense budget is the only budget out of the entire U.S. budget that has been cut in real terms by over 10 percent in the past 5…

I hope what I say is worth hearing to the American people. If you have been listening to the budget debate, you have heard Member after Member talk about reducing the deficit, and it is not so, folks, and the Congressional Budget Office…

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.

The Coalition budget is a step in the right direction. It would not borrow as much. Both of them, unfortunately, borrow money for the first year. It borrows less money, and cumulatively it borrows less, $50 billion less than the Republican…

I wish a couple of my colleagues would take the time to read the report from the Congressional Budget Office that says that the budget that has passed this House increases the annual operating deficit for this Nation in 1996. It does not…

one of my colleagues, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Bonior], just made the statement that we have somehow led the Bosnian Serbs to believe that the cavalry is on the way. Well, I might feel a little bit better about the outcome of this…

Mr. Chairman, I am going to use my time to say that this is a bad amendment, referring to the Hoyer amendment, to an already terrible bill. It is going to waste $16 billion American dollars, money we have to borrow in order to give away to…

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…