yesterday, America was besieged by images of tragedy and horror as we witnessed an attack on the very heart of the freedom which we hold so dear. Today, the Nation and the world are besieged by emotion: disbelief, anger, and enormous…

I think it this is a reasonable amendment, and I will read from it directly. It ensures that the maximum of acreage covered by production and support facilities, including air strips and areas covered by gravel, berms, or piers, does not…

I yield myself 30 seconds to underscore the remarks of the previous speaker, because I think to a certain degree they make the point, the point that I made earlier that we need to move away from the extremes of this debate. The opponents…

I am not arguing that that is a Department of Interior map. I am asking you if the pink shaded area is 2,000 acres. I think, given the scale of that map, the answer is clearly no. The pink shaded area probably represents at least half a…

Well, there are two reasons. One, because the checks are going to go out in a staggered format. They are going to go out in July, they are going to go out in August, and they are going to go out in September. The first people that are…

I very much appreciate the spirited nature of the debate. I certainly apologize to my colleague from Massachusetts for attempting to answer his question too specifically and too accurately. I know it is never a comfortable situation for…

In a letter from the National Treasury Employees Union, it was made clear what the concerns were. Simply put, quote, ``the IRS has great difficulty responding to all the telephone calls from taxpayers with questions. The volume of calls…

I think it serves the taxpayer well to have advance information. From the IRS's standpoint, the processing of checks may well be done differently than the processing of a notice like this. Why not give the taxpayer the information ahead of…

to address the gentleman's first point, what I said was there is information about how it is calculated, because while the headline in the Washington Post or the New York Times may be $300 a person, $600 a person, that is not technically…

I know what the difference is. What is the normal justification for collecting so much more in taxes than we spend in government?

I am not quite sure where to begin. First and foremost, it is interesting to sit in the Chamber today, to sit in the Chamber today and hear so much happiness and joy over something that has been done in the other body. I do not think I…

Mr. Chairman, I think it is inappropriate to suggest that this is a debate between soft drink manufacturers and even sugar growers for that matter. This is a question of taxpayer interests. I think there is no question, this program just…

that is a direct transfer of money from the American consumers to foreign corporations.

I want to address the point that somehow the new farm policy is to buy and sell to manipulate the price of the commodity sugar in the market. I think that is a very dangerous precedent to set. We should not be manipulating prices in the…

First, the concern of the gentlewoman about gas prices. I think everyone shares that concern. We have had a debate here on the floor about gas prices and what might be done about the situation, but I want to reaffirm that nothing in this…

I think that is a very prescient point, because we can look back in time from three particular areas where we either as a Nation did try to second guess the markets or we nearly tried to second guess the markets and look at what the…

I have rarely heard so much time and effort made into making a pretty simple amendment sound so complicated. It is simple because if you ask anyone in this country what should be done with the on-budget surpluses, they give you a pretty…

the priorities of this budget should be setting aside the social security surplus. We set aside every penny of the social security surplus for the third year in a row. This was first proposed last year by Republicans in response to the…

it does not include mandatories. We passed that bill unanimously in the House; it passed unanimously in the Senate. It will be signed by the President into law. It was initiated by the Speaker of this House, and it does not need to be…

It is never easy to put together a budget that spends $1.8 trillion. It is difficult to bring together all of the Members on this floor on either side of the aisle, talk through priorities, make trade-offs and set forth a blueprint that…

we have a number of Members that are going to talk about the defense provisions, the increase for funding of defense that is in this bill, the billion additional dollars for veterans' health care that is in this bill, and the fact that it…

This is a budget proposal that highlights the vision and the priorities of the conservative Members of the House. It establishes a clear benchmark for fiscal responsibility, for commitment to our national security, and for lowering the tax…

one of the previous speakers, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), described very clearly what the fundamental difference is between these two budgets. The Republican budget, after we set aside every single penny of the Social…

the preceding speakers on this side talked a little bit about the vision and the values that are embodied in the Republican budget, setting aside every penny of Social Security, paying down debt. The gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) talked…

we have a Republican budget on the floor here today, and it cannot be emphasized enough. It sets the right priorities; it protects ever penny of the Social Security surplus. It sets aside $40 billion for Medicare and makes sure that there…