Willie Hefner

I doubt very seriously if, during this campaign, if the people, who were campaigning as Republicans had said what we plan to do is to cut inspection in the workplace where people work, on the safety, and we are going to cut some of that…

shutting down the Government, harming innocent people, it is just not Government workers that are being inconvenienced, it is the elderly, it is children, it is our veterans, it is our veterans' hospitals. If we opened this Government…

Enough is enough. We need to open this Government and put people back to work and do the business of America that people sent us here to do and that the Federal employees were hired to do to go about doing the business of America.

I find it interesting; it disturbs me when Member after Member from this side of the aisle comes and talks about the failures we have had over the past 40 years. This is the greatest country on the face of the Earth. We do not have to…

I say to the gentleman from Iowa, I would not risk laying $500 on either one of these things here. Let me put in perspective, if I can, first of all about Social Security. We have heard a lot about Social Security. Democrats have always…

I am all for this amendment for the veteran. I asked the question while ago, and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey] answered it for me. I wanted you to answer it. Why was the program cut in priorities? Why was it cut to start with?

I have worked for years and years with the gentleman from Arizona [Bob Stump], who has the best interests of the veterans at heart, an honorable man, and the gentleman from Mississippi [Sonny Montgomery], who has been a pillar for the…

Make no mistake about it, with the limited resources that we have, if we embark on Star Wars, it is going to impact drastically on quality of life and readiness for our troops and readiness for our military.

We are debating priorities except in quality of life and Star Wars and readiness. The argument is are we going to stress readiness in this country and are we going to look after quality of life of our troops and get them off of food…

History will record the great energy and dedication our colleague, Bill Natcher, devoted to this institution and to the people it serves. It will record an incredible 18,401 uninterrupted rollcall votes amassed over 43 years in which he…

I sat on the same budget as my friend from Pennsylvania does. Make no mistake about it, if we adopt this, defense is going to take another cut. There is no doubt about it. My friend knows it, and everybody in this House knows that we are…