Willie Hefner

there is legislation in both bodies of this Congress that would place an excise tax which I think is very punitive and does not serve the purpose that I believe that we should be doing. I do not believe that anyone wants to support…

Truly, this has been a time when people thought back to the things that Terry Sanford stood for, and we will always remember that Terry Sanford was a real remarkable man, and he will be a legend, as he should be, in North Carolina and in…

When we think about Terry Sanford, we think about the influence, I would dare say, from another angle of an educator, knowing that his influence was, indeed, infinite; that a great educator knows how to pass on his ideals from generation…

we better be very careful in Social Security. Now we are talking about people's Social Security being taxed. Now the people in my district, the majority of them that count on Social Security are not people that pay any tax. These are…

as one that is going to leave this place shortly, I certainly hope that we find some way to shore up Social Security. But I would like to not correct one thing but make a comment about what my colleague from California said, about in 1993…

if this was not such a serious subject, this would be laughable. It is unfortunate we would not all be under oath. If we were under oath, we would be issued subpoenas for perjury for calling this campaign reform. I ran for office the first…

I do not know the procedures too well. I have only been here 20 some years. I am a slow learner. In the case this did pass, would it to go conference with the Senate, and would the President sign this, or is this just about making us feel…

I have been into residences where these people are living on the bases, our men and women. We have young men and women that are called upon to operate the most sophisticated weapons on the face of the Earth, and some of them are living in…

But this is a right for any Member in this House. And I have been here longer than all the leadership in this House, both Republican and Democrat, and I represent 500 people in my district. I have not offered a privileged resolution, but I…

I have been listening to the gentleman's speech, and it is good to see him really get excited for a change here, and I agree with what the gentleman is saying. The gentleman is probably going to get a move to call this not in order, ruled…

Wow. I thank the gentleman from New York very much for the time; I am indebted to him. The gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas], my good friend, I guess it was a slip of the tongue, he said the gentleman who lost, so they know who lost…

Let me just say this to you, I was here when the Indiana situation came about. It might have been wrong. During the last campaign Republicans campaigned all over this country and they said, the Democrats have been in charge for 40 years…

I have been around this for a long, long while, and I can remember when we kept people from voting because we had something called the poll tax. And most of us could not afford it, especially sharecroppers. And we were sharecroppers, and…

Mr. Chairman, this argument, and my good friend from Arizona has some connections in North Carolina, this kind of befuddles me a little bit. We are not pitting poor children in Arizona or in North Carolina, where we have many bases, I have…

I think what we should do is pursue active funding for impact aid for our military bases for quality of life programs which the gentleman from California [Mr. Packard] and I have worked very hard to do, to see that we can have retention…

we are not talking about posh offices, showers and all of these sorts of things. We are talking about impact aid. The impact aid, if the gentleman is opposed to NLRB, maybe he should have an amendment to do away with any funding for NLRB…

OK, Mr. Chairman, I stand corrected. And I apologize. But the gentleman said this is pitting poor children against bureaucrats and lawyers. That is not really what we are doing here. All the Members that I know here, the gentleman from…

The way I figured it up, each school district across the United States would get $700. Am I wrong?

Mr. Speaker, when the House passed the military construction bill, it included funding for many important projects for family housing, barracks, and dormitories. By a vote of 395 to 134, we agreed to place a high priority on the quality of…

we have heard the rhetoric and the people testifying and talking about tobacco and the ills of tobacco. If we want to vote to do away with tobacco, this is not the way to do it. We will be called on in just a few minutes to take this…

I would like to know, I have not heard what is in these amendments. This is like we are marking a bill here and somebody has offered an amendment nobody has seen. It has not been printed. I would just like to know what it entails. I am…

Living in rural North Carolina, my kids were in grade school, and nothing pleased them any more than when the symphony or a portion of the symphony from Charlotte or someplace came and performed at their school. It was the highlight of…

For many, many years I have been on this Subcommittee on Military Construction. It has been our number one initiative to try to do what we can for quality of life and to help for retention for what we believe is the finest young men and…

they say what goes around comes around. In 1981 we heard the same arguments. We passed a package that was unfair in 1981, and we have a package today that repeats it. It is not fair. If the people want to complain about us engaging in…

it seems to me we are giving extraordinary power to one individual to make decisions, to call bills to this floor, that this House will be called upon to vote on, that one individual to make decisions that affects over 250 million…