William Zeliff

We started a congressional breakfast, where we have 40 to 50 Members of Congress working with Charlie Rangel, both sides of the aisle, from New York. He has been a big leader in this effort as well. We have had meetings with Louis Freeh…

I share the gentleman from West Virginia's view regarding the importance of this amendment. I agree it is important that we do not hamper small businesses or jeopardize effective existing programs as we search for practical solutions to…

I publicly invite, on behalf of the committee, President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Bob Dole to join us at the very top as we will support their efforts at the very top across this country as we fan out to every single State in this…

I think that the Contract With America and all that we were trying to do in terms of giving back some of the power to the States to make decisions classifying what a wetlands is and a wetland is not makes all the sense in the world, and so…

Absolutely. We have got to get to kids early on and stay with them all the way through.

We must remember that business as usual, has resulted in a $4.5 trillion debt. Our annual interest payments are now over $200 billion, and slated to hit $278 billion by the year 2002. The amount of money that we pay for nonproductive…

I happen to be a small businessman from New Hampshire. We have three small businesses which my son now runs. If I went to the bank with that proposition, they would be telling me that I am heading down the trough of bankruptcy, and if I do…

Are you saying, then, back in August under this deficit reduction plan, that that was based on projected spending, not actual cuts?

Is it not interesting how that balanced budget amendment elusively, we thought we had the votes, and all of a sudden we just missed by a few votes. I voted on it twice now and the same thing has happened both times.

I think our problem here is that it doesn't have to be this way. We can take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to put the train back on track. We can start living within our means. We may have to start living on 95 percent of…

Let me just ask a quick question. Going back to the vote in August, am I correct in saying that that deficit reduction bill added a trillion dollars to our debt, making the total--we are right at $4.5 trillion, and we are going to be close…