Deborah Koff Ross

We are out of time this evening. I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza), the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Tanner), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Boyd) for coming to the floor of the United States House of…

Number 11, make sure that new bills fit the budget. Basically, we are proposing the Budget Committee strengthen its oversight role in preparing budget-compliant statements for every bill that is reported out of committee. Does anyone want…

Number one, require a balanced budget; number two, do not let Congress buy on credit; number three, put a lid on spending. Number four is something that I know I have heard the gentleman from Tennessee talk about quite often, and that is…

Number one, and it is kind of like David Letterman's top 10. This is the top 12, and I do not know if it is going to be as good as Letterman's top 10 or not, but it is very important. Point number one to the 12-point reform plan is…

We have about 5 minutes left in the Special Order, as we come to the floor of our Nation's Capitol here, the floor of the United States House of Representatives, to discuss this overwhelming debt that is saddling our country and…

Now, these $50 billion in cuts, including the $600 million in cuts to orphans and foster care, went to help pay for a $56 billion tax cut, which mostly benefited those earning over $400,000 a year, 50 percent of which went to those earning…

Where I come from, most people think we ought to have a vote if we are spending a dollar. We cannot even get the leadership here to give us a vote when we spend $50 million. It is time for that to change. I yield to the gentleman from…

If we are going to spend the tax money, the people need a voice in it and we need to make sure that money is going to benefit them to create jobs, economic opportunities; and that is what we are trying to do here, and that is why we say…

on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed the gulf coast as a category 4 storm. Due to the massive damage caused by one of the most costly natural disasters in our Nation's history, thousands of Louisiana and Mississippi residents…

This week's tax cuts. $70 billion this week, mostly to benefit those earning over $400,000 a year, half of it to benefit those earning in income over $1 million a year.

$2 trillion of our debt today is being held by foreign lenders, foreign governments, foreign central banks. Compare this to only $23 billion in foreign holdings in 1993. The top 10, it is kind of like David Letterman later tonight and his…

We discussed $11.4 billion in cuts to health care for the poor, the disabled, the elderly. Eight out of 10 seniors in nursing homes in Arkansas, my home State. $14.3 billion in cuts to student loans, at a time when I know how many parents…

Well, it is the most fascinating thing for me. Ever since I was a small child growing up in Emmett and Hope and Prescott, Arkansas, my dad was a public school educator and a principal and a superintendent. And, well, that is a profession…

for the next 60 minutes, me, along with other Members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, will come to the floor of the United States House of Representatives to talk about the debt, the deficit, the budget, the cuts in…

Scrooge-onomics. With that, I will recognize the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cooper).

this evening we are here to consider a bill known as the Deficit Reduction Act. And only here in a Republican-led Congress could something be called a deficit reduction act that adds $20 billion in new debt to this Nation's budget. Not…

does the speaker not have to address you and not a group or an individual? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind all Members they should address their remarks to the Chair. The gentleman may proceed.

I rise this evening to visit with the Members of this body about the national debt. I am one of 37 members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, 37 Members of Congress from all over these United States who share a common…

members of the Blue Dog Coalition have come tonight, not only to point out our Nation's debt and deficit, but to offer a solution with our 12-point plan. We look forward to other opportunity in the future to further discuss our 12-point…

Out of these $50 billion in cuts, and Mr. Chandler from Kentucky hit the nail on the head when he pointed out that they are talking about cutting spending $50 billion, but they are really increasing spending. That is true because they are…

for the first time in about 50 years, the Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate. So let us look at the real state of the union and what they have given us: $8 trillion in debt. In fact, this Nation is borrowing…

as whip of the Blue Dog Coalition I rise this evening to talk about the financial condition of our Nation's government. There are about 35 of us that are fiscally conservative Democrats. We refer to ourselves as members of the Blue Dog…

So you are saying, if the gentleman will continue to yield, that the Federal Government cannot account for $24.5 billion that it spent in 2003; and what this plan would do is it would say to those agencies that we are going to freeze your…

in the hour that we have discussed the debt and the deficit, our Nation has borrowed $48 million. On top of that, our Nation has paid $18 million in interest on the national debt. That is $66 million that our Nation has spent during the 60…

I would thank the gentleman from Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, one of the 12 points is to ensure that the Congress reads the bills we are voting on. We cannot pass a law to make Members of Congress read a bill, but several examples have been…