David Thomas

I bring to the floor and to this bill an amendment which was offered last year and adopted by a bipartisan vote of 59 to 39 but was trimmed out of the omnibus appropriations bill. It has to do with the question of the Federal Government…

I ask the Senator if he is aware that the subcommittee is now in the process of seeking to put together a plan, a long-term plan? All of us who understand that parks and their resources are one of the most valuable resources that we have…

Mr. Speaker, I am really pleased that the gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman] pretty well laid out the game plan here. He talked about the structural changes that the Republicans made in the balanced budget amendment in terms of…

I want to take this time--and I am sure some of my colleagues will join me--to talk a little bit about one of the items that has been before us and will continue to be before us that I think is probably the premier legislature, and that is…

I talked earlier about the fact that the Democrats are just loath to have the myth of Republicans only cutting taxes for the rich and so they have had to create a ridiculous explanation of how much someone has to argue that this is for the…

Mr. Speaker, as we carry on what I guess passes for normal debate around here, I think we probably ought to pause for just a moment and not let our partisan juices flow quite as freely as they do sometimes, because quite frankly, the…

I am delighted that we are talking about tax relief for the first time really seriously in 10 years. We have not had tax relief since the early 1980's. It is time we do that. I certainly want to congratulate the chairman of the Finance…

What we are asking for is to bring that ceremony authorized in Concurrent Resolution 216 into the 105th, based upon concurrence by the Senate.

we do want to talk this morning, however, about an item of great importance to all of us--the citizens and to all of us as Members of the Senate--and that is taxation, the question that will be before the Senate this week, as the Finance…

Unfortunately, this reinventing Government is not achieving its purpose. It is recreating big Government. The current A-76 process, which is the system that is supposed to be used to decide if a function can be done more cost effectively…

The FAA recently announced it was awarding a contract of about $150 million for data processing and information technology to the Department of Agriculture. The problem is that there are plenty of private-sector groups that are more…

we are going to, this week, enter into one of the most serious debates that we will have all year, one of the matters that I think is the most serious that we will address all year, and that is the question of the budget. As a matter of…

I am real pleased today to be joined by three of my associates in support of H.R. 1122, the Partial-Birth Abortion Act. I just want to mention the reasons that [President Clinton] gave for vetoing the bill. First, he said it was only…

I rise in support of the current bill to reauthorize IDEA, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. The Federal Government, in my view, should and does play a rather limited role in elementary and secondary education. This is the…

House Concurrent Resolution 25 is a resolution to nominate and dedicate the statue of Jack Swigert to represent the State of Colorado in Statuary Hall. The resolution provides for a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda to commemorate the…

In 1954, the House of Representatives passed a bill numbered H.R. 9835, legislation to require the executive branch to increase its reliance on the private sector--1954. Among the concerns addressed by the bill were manufacturing…

Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that the last two speakers who both indicated that they were going to vote against the funding resolution are freshmen and therefore they have had no experience in what the Congress has looked like when…

Frankly, this gentleman from California is confused. I have to tell my colleagues on the other side, they cannot have it both ways. Either we are not doing the job that the people want us to do and we should fund the committees more, or we…

we want to take some time this morning to talk a little bit about an issue that is very current, is always current, but particularly current because the trustees of Medicare have given their annual report. So we want to take some time and…

I rise to talk about a difficulty that we have had this winter in Wyoming and Montana in the Yellowstone Park area with respect to buffalo. Many of you, of course, have read about the problem as a result of an extremely difficult winter…

Tomorrow is tax day. I guess every one of us knows that. Certainly some of us are a little sleepless from having dealt with it. So it is an appropriate time to talk, I think, about taxes. There are lots of things to talk about in the area…

several of us have asked this morning for a half hour to talk about an item that is of particular interest now, and that is taxes. It is of particular interest because we are now close to April 15, when taxes are more real to us all than…

let me just sort of wind up on our tax thing and say that if you are like me--a weekend from now it will be April 15 and all of us I hope are beginning to think about preparing our tax returns. It is a headache, of course, and so we tend…

Mr. Speaker, this is a continued discussion about the way the House should be run. If you will recall in our discussions yesterday and today on the rule, the last time the Democrats controlled the House, the funds for the committee total…

where was I? Yes, I remember, I was talking about democracy and majority rule. As a matter of fact, that is the way we make decisions in our constitutional Republic. I did not realize how prophetic the introduction of my friend, the…