Lee Terry

I will admit to the gentleman, coming from the State of Nebraska, that I will have leanings towards securing, especially in a time when we are in a severe drought and I have already been told that for the State of Nebraska, from the…

I am proud that the 107th Congress on 22 occasions over the last year-and-a-half has passed 22 tax reduction measures. I am not going to come before my colleagues tonight and say that all taxes are bad or not necessary, but I will come…

according to the 2000 census, in the gentleman's district it is 59,536 couples that are affected by our current Tax Code. In my district of Omaha, Nebraska, it is 58,000 couples that have to pay more in taxes. When your great couple from…

I think it is ironic that just today on the House floor we had a vote to require that this body, both Houses, a constitutional amendment that would require a two-thirds vote to raise taxes. I just think it is ironic that the practical…

is the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) telling me that it is not a cost that we are going to hear about, how it is costing the government to give these families this relief?

That is the point. The gentleman is correct. That is the point of this, is that we are trusting people with their own money, to make their own decisions about what is best for them and their family. Now, we in Congress, I hear this all the…

Well, it is because of the opportunity that we have here in the House of Representatives, why I wanted to be here was to help families like them and the 58,000 like them in the Second Congressional District in Nebraska. Just think of the…

I appreciate that. I have just become so focused. As the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) said, the morality of just confiscating one's work product for the sake of having revenues, we leave out the economic component of in essence…

$200,000 to $300,000, and even more if you go to some of the other equipment. A small family-owned printing company that I toured last summer when I was home, one printer runs hundreds of thousands of dollars, half a million dollars for a…

One of the other points, though, I want to make with that is the cost of the machinery. When we talk about our farms and ranches, we have a plant that manufactures farm equipment. The price of some of that equipment coming out is several…

I think it exemplifies why all three of us ran for this office and why we fight to come back every year, is to stop that type of mentality, which is 'we need more money, more money, more money.' So when we try and reduce spending here by…

I am an enthusiastic supporter and original cosponsor. In fact, this is one of the reasons why I joined the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is trying to find a safe harbor, a…

Four times. Well, the gentleman had a little trouble convincing some other people of the importance of not only helping people up out of poverty by teaching them special skills so they could become employed, but also on such important…

Building character, self-esteem, the power to say no, to make those tough choices that our teenagers have to make on a daily basis.

We in Nebraska have shared the same statistics because we have embraced the abstinence programs. We have several school districts, our public schools, that have adopted these programs and apply for reimbursement.

I look forward to that. And I really believe the abstinence program the Congress passed in 1996 and we get to authorize is one of the major causes of the drop in teenage pregnancy. But we still have a long way to go. We have to recognize…

I thank my chairman. I appreciate that he is doing this special order tonight to bring the message out to the people of America what this good Congress is doing for our youth. The gentleman was here in 1996 when this Congress passed the…

That is what this program teaches. It is not just the sex part, but it is teaching them the internal strength to say no; to recognize the situations where they can be manipulated by their peers; to identify that situation and remove…

according to our Nebraska Health and Human Services, since the program was implemented in 1996, we in Nebraska have brought this program to 15,000 students. It takes time to get a program like this up and running, the curriculum set, the…

I was frustrated with the attempts for amendments in our committee by that small minority, and I am pleased that it has been pointed out this is a bipartisan effort. The vast majority agree that the abstinence message is the correct one…

Not only on the sure ways that it affects teenagers' lives, but just think of the message that Congress sends, the message we would send the American public and the teenagers, which is that we do not care whether they abstain. Our only…

The Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study on the effectiveness of condoms, which are the focus of most of the safe sex programs out there. It is 1,251 women whose partners consistently used condoms…

I rise in support of the Upton enforcement amendment. This amendment will significantly strengthen the FCC's enforcement of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Because of this amendment, the FCC will finally be given an enhanced…

I believe in the empowerment of local, county, and State governments. I believe that they, being closer to the people, can provide services better and cheaper. The Federal Government does ask that those local governments perform tasks on…

certainly as Americans, especially now, we owe the men and women who served our country in times of war a tremendous debt of gratitude. Simply put, we cannot do enough to thank them for their contributions to our great Nation. We cannot do…