John Shaw

Well, Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sam Johnson) first of all, for being so persistent. The fact that that bill is named H.R. 5 shows that that was one of the first filed here, and those first numbers…

Actually under the Archer-Shaw bill which you pointed to earlier, it would be many years from now, but the future Congress could many years from now actually reduce that tax substantially and still keep Social Security fully funded and…

We need them. It is not only what they are entitled to. We need them in the workforce. There is so much talent that we have lost. Go into the hospitals today, go down the corridors, see the age of the nurses that are about to retire. When…

Mr. Speaker, we have just received, on our side, a brand new bulletin called the White House Bulletin. It provides in it that "The White House reveals the Democrat 2000 Agenda." It is entitled "Families First, the 2000 Democrat Agenda."…

Mr. Speaker, this committee has no jurisdiction with regard to social security. If we do not solve the problem of social security, it will become a problem in about 2014, because we will be looking for appropriations to put money into the…

If the gentleman would let me explain to him, and if he was listening, he would know that I said the buck stops at the Committee on Ways and Means, not the Committee on Appropriations. It is a Committee on Ways and Means responsibility to…

The only inequity that the people from New York will suffer would be, if this amendment passes, when they move down to Florida, then they will see what the inequity is. The mathematics is very clear. I hope my colleagues will listen to the…

I want to encourage the President and his staff and the Treasury Department and all those connected with the Social Security system to come forward with a concrete proposal in writing that we can receive. So I am hopeful yet that we do…

While H.R. 435 contains many worthy provisions, I am particularly pleased that two sections, which I drafted, were included in this legislation. These two sections concern renewing the Customs user fee and language that would benefit…

I intend to support this bill, but I must express my disappointment as to a provision that was dropped in the conference which I feel is very, very important. As the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Boucher) has just stated, bringing up child…

two businessmen, Ted Forstmann and John Walton, are, in my opinion, American heroes, and here is why. American public schools are in crisis. The crisis is starkly illustrated by the results of the Third International Mathematics and…

I would ask anybody that is watching this debate today to take with a grain of salt and be very cautious about any Member who gets up and says that any other Member on either side of the aisle is guilty of raiding the Social Security trust…

I simply was talking about the question of lying to the American people is very much on the minds of the American people.

I do not want anybody in this body to misunderstand me. I am not making any accusation as to whether the President lied or not. I am simply saying that the American people are demanding truth from their politicians, so let us get some…

I do believe without question that the language is sufficiently tight. What we are talking about, people who are either working in ports or apply for positions in ports, are going to get their background checked. I think the language is…

Mr. Chairman, I would briefly say in rebuttal to the gentleman I think what we are talking is trying to bring balance back to the American political system, and to stand there and argue that PACs may have some problem with this particular…

This legislation really was born here in the House and moved forward. The Senate had some very good hearings and then we, of course, went to conference. Now we have come up with a really fair, much fairer, process in dealing with the…

I would like to join with him in thanking the committee for what they have put in this particular bill with the shore protection...these are very important projects. The Kissimmee River going back to the natural flow into Lake Okeechobee…

I rise to offer the Shaw-Camp-English amendment that is central to the Committee on Ways and Means' work on the collection of child support. Under the leadership of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), the Committee on the…

I chair the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over TANF, and I will give my word now to each Member in this Congress that we are not going to cut TANF this year. The final budget that comes out of Congress will exactly back us up on that…

I do, however, take exception with one small portion of the bill that I am greatly concerned about. That is cutting into title XX, which is clearly under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means. There are $3 billion that are…

I strongly support H.R. 1023, the ``Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998.'' H.R. 1023, sponsored by my friend Porter Goss, is named for Ricky Ray, a 15 year old Florida hemophiliac who died in 1992. This bill represents the best of…

I rise in support of S. 931, a bill which honors two south Floridian conservation pioneers, Ernest Coe and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. S. 931 names the main visitor center at the Everglades National Park the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center and…

Back in 1988 I was one of the prime sponsors, along with the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] and others, that worked so hard in this area of drug prevention of the original so-called drug czar bill, which was then watered down…

I am grateful for the increase. I am, however, concerned that these funds can be raided by other divisions at NOAA.