Willie Hefner

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…

Let me tell my colleague what we did. When the hearings got real tight, heads were going to roll, guess what we did? We invaded Grenada. All the focus of the hearings went to the invasion of Grenada. We did not hear any more into the…

I just want to bring back something that happened a few years ago when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, and we lost 240 men in their sleep in Lebanon. We were in real secret negotiations and hearings upstairs in this…

I am not questioning the fact we need to have hearings, but it seems to me we oversimplify when we say we are going to decide right here what is going to be the policy of the Saudis as far as allowing us to do things for the protection of…

I have served for many years on the Committee on Appropriations. It is interesting to come here and see history rewritten, history changed. I remember many years ago when, and the gentleman just made a statement, and certainly I do not…

this just shows how far we are into a political campaign. Here we have a bill that nobody knows anything about, that does nothing and, if you vote against it, you are going to have commercials run against you that say you are soft on…

I am just curious how many people would have on their own the resources to go to court and how many people on their own would know where to go to the Secretary of Labor.

I have an idea that 90 percent of the people in our district in North Carolina do not have any idea who Mr. Reich is. I just think this is not a very good deal for the average working folks in the country.

as someone who is not a businessman, and I have not been inundated with requests on this, but if I am working 30 or 40 people in my plant, and they were trying to make a living on, in a lot of cases, very low wages and the employer says…

I thank the gentleman. Certainly they are not without their faults and without their problems. Even our private hospitals sometimes have instances where they operate on the wrong foot or what have you. These things happen, but they are not…

I was a real admirer of Bill Emerson, and there was an old former gospel singer I just happened to draw upon memory from, a gospel song writer from Missouri, Albert E. Bromley, who is one of the greatest gospel song writers in the world…

Let us just put this in perspective. What is going to happen if this amendment passes, the small farmers is going to get hurt. We have practiced this in other areas. He is going to get hurt. We talk so much about the consumer. Everybody is…

is the gentleman telling this House and the people watching this debate that he does not believe that the manufacturers would pass this savings on to the consumer? That is what the argument is about, the consumer. The consumer is not going…

Four point eight million people in Wisconsin, and it is going to directly or indirectly affect the lives of all the people in Wisconsin, and we are going to do it here when a lot of people are going to be gone, nobody knows anything about…

Eighty-eight waivers that nobody knows what they are or what they do that absolutely affects the lives of millions of people--I do not know how many people are in Wisconsin.

for my own clarification, under ordinary circumstances, something of this magnitude, what would the process be? What committee would it go to that we would have hearings where everybody could talk about it, we could have witnesses or what…

Well, I have been here for quite awhile. I have never seen something of this magnitude, and we single out a State we are going to grant how many waivers?

I urge strong support of this bill. It is not as much as we would like to do. I suppose that will always be with the budget restrictions that we are under. I suppose we will never have enough money to do the things that we would like to do…

I do not disagree with anything that the gentleman said, but this is not a new phenomenon for administrations not to request as much money as we need. We can go back years and years and years. Many years ago I went out to Fort Hood, TX. I…

You talk about wanting to give some tax relief to the working Americans, but in your budget that you passed here last week, you cut earned income tax credit, which is going to be a tax increase to working Americans. It seems to me if you…

it seems that every debate we have around here, it centers on the President's package of 1993. I would just like to remind the gentleman, I do not know about this district, in my district the package we passed in 1993 with all Democratic…

Yes. We have created 8 million new jobs. The deficit is down. They have continued to go down for 3 years, on the 4th year of a downward trend on the deficit. It will go down even more this year than it would if we pass this Republican…

I was there fighting the fight, voting against Medicare in 1965 because we knew it would not work. Now, we didn't get rid of it in round 1, because we didn't think that was politically smart, and we don't think that is the right way to go…

I have heard many times here today and on television in the last few days that the President raised taxes, the biggest taxes raised in history. That is not true, but we will not debate that at this time. Every Member in this body had more…

This Clinton budget plan will not create jobs, will not grow the economy, and will not reduce the deficit. Our distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Budget... said: We are going to find out whether we have higher deficits. We are…