Roger Wicker

I can't vote for it because it doesn't live up to the rhetoric that we have heard from the proponents of the legislation in debate today. If you want to come up with a bill to, indeed, make college more affordable for middle America, then…

I accompanied the gentlewoman on the delegation to Egypt. Will she acknowledge that we met with Mr. Mubarak, Jr., and that he outlined a roadmap for further constitutional democratization in Egypt that is a positive step and that the…

I just want our constituents to understand that, and I want the Members of this body to understand that. I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this issue. We are not going to do anything to Social Security disability and…

I know also, I would say to the gentlewoman, that she finds as refreshing as I do the remarks of our new Member who came to us from a business background and who is determined to work with us on this type legislation, someone who knows of…

I wonder if I could interject one other thing at this point. We are about to run out of time, and I do not know if we have complimented the leader of this Special Order quite enough. She has been very generous in her remarks about us…

And it is designed for parents of children and for working poor parents to help give them an extra opportunity. So when almost a third of the earned income tax credit money goes to people who are not entitled to it, certainly it hurts the…

The gentleman is an expert, and I am sure he can explain better than I can the purpose of the earned income tax credit, which is a worthy purpose.

Oh, my goodness. Okay, it is even worse than I heard. So 32 percent of the earned income tax credit is claimed erroneously or fraudulently, one or the other; is that what you are saying?

Mr. Speaker, we meet today in a Chamber that exhibits a magnificent portrait of George Washington just to my left. We meet at a location actually selected by George Washington, the father of our country. Just above the Speaker's podium is…

I want to commend them both and the full committee for the bipartisan nature of the bill. This bill addresses the AIDS pandemic by providing a total of $2.2 billion in global assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, as well as other very serious…

I find myself in the first group, those who support President Bush's action in Iraq and who realize how important it is now to do what is necessary to win the peace. I firmly believe that the United States of America did the right thing in…

I would concede this, that President Reagan raised taxes and the very next year he was up here proposing deficits as far as the eye could see. When we cut taxes, as President Reagan did, the economy grows. These are simply the facts…

I would find the gentleman's remarks to be a little more credible if he would at least acknowledge that during the time those girls were in college this Republican majority in the United States Congress has paid off $500 billion in public…

It is important that this special order be bipartisan, and it is important that the clear message go out, not only to our colleagues, but to everyone around the world within the sound of our voices, to make it clear that on a bipartisan…

I think I can attest, Mr. Speaker, to the difficulty we had at the State level prior to 1996 in enacting meaningful welfare reform at that level. God knows we tried and we tried to do our best, but we did not have the flexibility that we…

Mr. Chairman, I am a veteran of the United States Air Force. I have worn the uniform of my country, and I still serve in the United States Air Force Reserve. And I would tell my friend from New Jersey that every member of the United States…

This is a good bill, Mr. Speaker. It is a bipartisan bill, as both sides have mentioned. It makes important strides in the areas of health and education. While we are providing the largest increase ever for Federal education programs, I am…

I would simply say there has been no greater advocate for the LIHEAP program than my friend from New York, and I appreciate his efforts and I appreciate his remarks. His compliments were directed toward the chairman of the subcommittee…

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I am concerned that this language may not provide public school choice to students in many rural areas. For example, in my mostly rural congressional district, a school district is often comprised of a limited number of schools, sometimes…

I salute him for an entire career devoted to quality public education, flexibility at the local level, and the absence of Federal mandates. That is really the difference in philosophy that we are talking about here on the floor of this…

Finally, let me ask the gentleman, Mr. Chairman, with regard to this appropriation in this bill, which I agree is regrettably low, how does it compare to the amount requested by President Clinton in his budget this year for NIH and health…

As far as the cumulative increases, since the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Porter) has been chairman, the cumulative increases are almost double those requested by the President of the United States?

If you are not a United States citizen, or a United States national, you should not be able to influence the electoral process. It is wrong and dangerous to allow a potential to exist for undue foreign influence in electing Federal…

It is one of the tools that is used efficiently in my State, along with all of the other job creating programs that we have talked about, to create jobs in the private sector, and that is what we ought to be doing. That is a good use of…