here we go again. First it is inventing the Internet, then it is drugs for his mother-in-law and his dog. Now it appears the Vice President's imagination has really run wild again. When Governor Bush mentioned traveling to a disaster area…

do Members remember that all-American slogan: baseball, mom, and apple pie? We have a new campaign slogan today, thanks to the Vice President, the person who supposedly invented the Internet. It goes, dog, mother-in-law, and prescription…

there are a lot of issues on our plate, but there are two in particular that the American people are demanding action on. The American people want us to take advantage of our current prosperity to pay off the multi-trillion dollar public…

today, Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, celebrates its centennial. It is altogether fitting that we pause to honor the vision and accomplishments of its founder, the Reverend Edgar Tufts, on this celebrated day. For 100…

I am a senior citizen and I qualify for Medicare. I am at the age where every night I have to use Zocor and Cardura and Claritin D and Timoptin, but I pay for them myself. We in Congress earn over $140,000 a year. And those of us in…

let me pose a mathematical problem. When the President finally finishes his budget negotiations with the Congress, he will have spent the projected budget surplus and more. Where will he go to find the money to finance his liberal spending…

first let me say the Federal Reserve has done a great job in keeping our economy strong and growing. Unfortunately, the Clinton-Gore administration's lack of a coherent energy policy threatens that very economic prosperity. As I speak…

I speak as one of the proud 50 percent of this body that was a member of the Boy Scouts. Mr. Speaker, the Boy Scouts are a private organization with a long-standing reputation protected by the first amendment. Now, despite the Supreme…

Vice President Gore made a promise to the AFL-CIO that he would keep Federal contracts from companies the unions did not like. This "blacklist" would be created under the proposed rules the administration released late last month and would…

author Pearl S. Buck once wrote, ``Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or to be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.'' Yet our…

nothing we do here in Congress can be accomplished alone. Today I want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who have worked to make the 106th Congress' record one of accomplishment and not of partisan gridlock. This Congress…

it has been said that an education is the best provision for old age. Without an education, a person's options and their potential for growth are severely limited. Nowhere is this philosophy more accurate than in America, where even many…

when the American people talk, Congress listen. Thousands of our Nation's seniors asked for relief from rising prescription drug prices. We worked to create a bipartisan plan that is voluntary, affordable, and available to all. We passed…

Mark Twain once said, ``Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.'' Well, in a similar sense, the Clinton-Gore administration often pledges to support education, but does nothing to back up their rhetoric. In…

I have been wrestling with the phrase of ``a do-nothing Congress.'' If by ``doing nothing'' the Democrats mean that we are protecting the social security trust fund from being raided to pay for other big government programs, then they are…

when the doctor cartel bill comes up this afternoon, I will give my colleagues 10 reasons to vote for it. First, they like what OPEC has done to oil prices. Second, they think that too many low-income children have health insurance. They…

Mr. Chairman, I still do not understand why this bill is not under the Fair Labor Standards Act. We all know that there has been a great expansion of HMOs. Large insurance companies seem to care more about the bottom line than the patients…

I would like to say antitrust exemption will not improve health care quality at all. Proponents of this bill say that it will level the playing field between doctors and health plans. But what happens to the consumer when the providers get…

I am a senior citizen. I actually am that proper age and have Medicare and each night I use Zocor and Cardura and Claritin D and Timoptin, but I pay for them myself. We in Congress earn over $130,000 per year. We should not receive…

President Clinton has often used bus tours and the like to promote his latest proposals for new government programs. As you recall, his most notable tour advocated the First Lady's massive Federal health care plan. The President's latest…

I am in opposition to the Moakley amendment. I have visited El Salvador 40 or 50 times. The School of the Americas is something we need. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Moakley amendment. As you should know, the School of the…

Republicans believe that no Medicare beneficiary should have to choose between putting food on the table or purchasing the prescription drugs they need to live. Yet that is just what the poorest of American seniors are forced to do…

I want today to support H.R. 434. The Caribbean Basin Initiative was proposed in 1982 by President Reagan as a way of promoting economic revitalization and trade expansion opportunities for countries in the Caribbean Basin after peace had…

I support giving all the help we can to poor, hungry children in America, but when the programs that are supposed to help children are wasting money instead, that is a problem. A recent review by the House Committee on the Budget found…

last month the Democrats criticized our budget resolution with their standard risky rhetoric, claiming our budget would cause children to starve and deny health care for the elderly. Ironically, it is the irresponsible accounting of the…