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This is not an IRS ``you owe the money'' deal. This is a requirement on the employer that they notify the employee of what their retirement benefits are. It is my belief that that would be dealt with under the act, that part of ERISA is…
The regulatory requirement to which I was speaking is originally based in the ERISA legislation, but based in the Department of Labor. And so it is certainly my impression that the legislation before us does not waive that one, that it…
As members prepare for this historic vote, I would like to say that I take this matter as seriously as any issue I have ever voted on during my tenure here in Congress
As I have indicated repeatedly over the past weeks and months, President Clinton's conduct in having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky and not being truthful about it was wrong, plain and simple, and it has left me profoundly…
Impeachment in the Constitution was meant to be applied when the elected President misuses the office in a way that threatens our structure of government
I rise to express particular personal gratitude to the chairman, to the chairman's staff, to the ranking member, and the ranking member's staff for all of the patience and time they have spent with me in understanding our problems and in…
The sky is beginning to clear over this Chamber. The light of good legislation at last is beginning to shine again. It should not have been this hard. It should not have been this rancorous. But what counts is getting the job done, and…
To the families that have been apart for 6 weeks and have no place to live, it looks like foreign aid to us.
I have appreciated the time and attention that the majority leader has spent looking at the consequences of the natural disasters experienced in our region, the people of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks and Devils Lake, ND. The…
I make one final point. The outpouring of support the people I represent have seen from across the country in response to the disaster that has hit us so brutally hard has been overwhelming. I think the American people truly had a right to…
There are many things with which I agree with the majority. In other areas I disagree. But I was absolutely shocked that on this pension raid issue, threatening the retirement security of millions of working men and women, all but one of…
I participated in hearings on the concept of dynamic scoring and acknowledge... we simply do not have the tools, the ability at the present time to reasonably quantify in a way that would give anyone the certainty required under this…
I would just also ask the chairman to address this in conference committee. This is an extraordinarily consequential policy change to try and be moved forward in report language. That just is not right. It ought to come back to the…
I am going to vote for the President's budget. I will oppose the GOP budget, for the reasons that I am saying. Mr. Chairman, another area of important contrast involves the Medicaid Program. The Medicaid Program is a major source of…
Medicare is joint, State and Federal. If you look at the combined reductions in spending in the Medicaid Program, their proposal is recklessly, dangerously different than either the President or the coalition proposal.
Mr. Chairman, I want to take issue with a couple of things the preceding speaker... I had a problem with this bill, a huge problem.
I have in my hand the Congressional Record of the consideration of the rules from the preceding farm bills back to 1965. By my reading, none has been considered under a rule as restrictive as the one considered today. Second, your…
As a Member of this body, all too often, I have seen debates involve pressing problems and yet no real solutions, no meaningful answers. I am dumbfounded at this debate today, because we are dealing with no meaningful problem, and…
I believe attained age rating of the Medicare supplement business generally is inappropriate. I think that it is dead wrong for people whose finances are diminishing in advancing age, whose health is deteriorating in advancing age, to be…
In April, seven colleagues and I wrote to you to express our serious concern that the number of long-range bombers contained in the fiscal year 1995 defense budget is inadequate to support requirements for two major regional contingencies…
I would only conclude by saying that is precisely correct. The Wise-Price-Pomeroy-Furse amendment is not a sham. It is not saying, ``We do not want a balanced-budget amendment, but, wink, wink, we will vote for this one, great cover.''…
The people I represent I think understand that you do not fund operating costs out of debt. That is what this country has done, and it is time for it to stop. The balanced budget amendment approach we seek would put a stop to it. On the…
Language in the General Accounting Office report states, I believe, that a capital budget helps narrowly focus on infrastructure needs and the funding and establishment of those needs, and addresses it in a much better fashion than is…
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