Jon L. Christensen

Bill Clinton and the Washington liberal groups are leading a double life. They claim that they want to end welfare as we know it, yet fight it and veto every plan we put forward. They say they want to increase the earnings of working…

the only point anyone has missed in this whole debate is the fact that the American people are frustrated and fed up. The last 30 years their taxes have been raised and raised and raised every time. This amendment today would reassure…

I stand up for the fact that this has tough mandatory sentencing for those criminals. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the measure before us today. This legislation makes it clear that problem with guns in our society is not…

this week, Bill Clinton will be holding a forum on youth, crime, and drugs. My hometown of Omaha, NE, saw juvenile arrests for major crimes spike by 20 percent last year. In fact, by last year alone juveniles accounted for almost half of…

If I have learned anything over the past year in Congress, it is that there are two opposing views on crime in our country. There are those who believe that crime is not necessarily an issue of personal responsibility, but of environment…

a long shadow is falling over America. Slowly the shadow is blotting out the sunny streets and parks where children play. It is blocking out the moonlight where couples walk. It is even blocking out the warm welcoming glow of our houses at…

back home, the crustiest old farmers, who are not as conservationist as our generation, deal with endangered predators the way liberals have dealt with Medicare. Their expression for the easy way out is this: ``Shoot, shovel, and shut…

despite liberal attempts to hide the truth, the word is out. The American people have learned that our precious Medicare system is going broke. It is clear that unless important actions are taken, Medicare will be belly-up in the year…

I rise today to denounce one of the most outrageous and arrogant abuses of government power that I have witnessed since coming to Washington. Sadly, it involves a U.S. Government agency, the Bonneville Power Administration, or better known…

this week on the Committee on Ways and Means we are looking at alternatives for making our tax system more clear, simple, and fair. There is no longer a question that we should revamp our Federal tax system. President Carter was right when…

last September 27, Republican incumbents and candidates stood on the Capitol steps and made a pledge to the American people. We promised to bring to the floor legislation that had been blocked by the Democrat-controlled Congress for years…

there is one issue that has been neglected in the debate over our tax bill: the issue of how this tax bill helps our nation's seniors. Remember President Clinton's punitive tax hike on seniors? Remember when the Democrats decided that…

do not be confused about the opponents that I just heard visit on this, this little child will be compensated for those damages for the rest of her life. The plaintiffs bar are going to try to confuse the issue here, but in Omaha, NE, an…

Yesterday this body began the monumental task of reforming America's legal system. Mr. Speaker, for too many years ridiculous legal judgments have been handed down in frivolous lawsuits where the only real winners are the lawyers. Mr…

I read with great interest an editorial found in Monday's Wall Street Journal article by Creighton Hale. Mr. Hale is the CEO of Little League Baseball and he made a very good case for the need for legal reform. One example he gave was…

Men and women do not join the Armed Forces to fight and die for the United Nations. They join to serve their own country, the United States. In the past 2 years, the United States has been involved in more peacekeeping missions under the…

today we are continuing debate on the crime control package, one of the items in our Contract With America. This package is unique because it actively will work to prevent, catch, and convict violent criminals that roam our neighborhoods…

Republicans have promised a lot lately. We promised to make Congress subject to the same laws that the rest of the American people have to live with. We kept that promise. We promised to give the American people a balanced budget…

Monday will be the birthday of a great man--President Ronald Reagan. Monday will also be the day that we vote on the line-item veto. Over the last 40 years this body has stood idly by as we have passed a $4.5 trillion national debt onto…

Yesterday ushered in just one more victory for the American people. We passed the unfunded mandates reform legislation by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 360 to 74. Once again, we have kept our promise with the people through our…

over the last 40 years, the Congress has perfected a new dance--the 10th amendment shuffle. The music for this dance starts playing when the Congress runs out of Federal tax dollars to spend, but still has several key projects on their…

last year the city of Gretna, NE, a small town in my district in the eastern part of Nebraska, population a couple thousand, was ordered by the EPA to spend $12,000 above and beyond their normal costs of $2,000 for additional testing to…

the liberal defenders of the old order said it could not happen. The Democrat-controlled Congresses of previous years would not let it happen. But finally a Republican-controlled House made it happen. We passed a balanced budget amendment…

the top 10 reasons why the American people deserve a balanced budget amendment: No. 10, fiscal discipline does not work. No. 9, we need to make it as difficult to get into debt as it is going to be to get out of it. No. 8, the national…

in February 1982 President Ronald Reagan said the Federal Government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the States, and too much liberty with the Constitution. Truer words were never spoken. That argument…