David Thomas

I offer to the Senate a sense-of-the- Senate resolution which states that we would have biennial budgeting. I make this recommendation for several reasons. The primary factor is my personal experience with biennial budgeting. I come from…

So it is backloaded, and no one can argue with that. It is there and perhaps none of it should be backloaded. Of course, it will be when you reduce so much this year, it builds up, and I understand that. But we have to make some tough…

We are talking about 4.3-cent tax cut on the gas tax. The average gas tax in this country is about 38 cents, about half of which is Federal, half of which is State. The unique thing about this 4.3 cents, that I think everyone needs to…

There was no clear pervasive evidence of wrongdoing, but we ought to go forward. He said he did not know if the allegations were true or false, but we ought to spend $4.5 million.

I am sure there will be more conversations today, as there should, about the fact that this is tax freedom day. This is the day that has been determined that each of us on the average has worked since the first of the year until now to pay…

Yesterday the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 report on the protection of U.S. intellectual property rights [IPR] by foreign countries. It will come as no surprise to my colleagues that topping the list of…

Today, I join in commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the Armenian genocide. On April 24, 1915, under the direction of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, a campaign of Armenian extermination began. Armenian religious, political, and…

I appreciate our colleague bringing us to the floor to talk today about the environment. Certainly, this is Earth Day, and we ought to talk about it. We just have one Earth and one planet. There is more and more of us and we have the same…

While I would agree that our Trade Representative Mickey Kantor has done an impressive job, not only in negotiations with Japan but with other countries as well, most notably China, but I would also agree with the vast majority of economic…

I want to say, however, in closing, that I think we have made some real progress in the last couple years in the industry, in the private sector. And even though I think there are some problems that we will have to deal with as we go about…

I really do not know who to direct my remarks to, because apparently this motion to recommit is Dingell minus the increase for the self-employed. Two of our colleagues on the other side, the gentleman from North Dakota and the gentleman…

I appreciate the comments. I do not think there is any question that we should understand how important that is to the People's Republic of China. It probably means more to them than it does to us and we need to recognize that. So my…

I want to compliment him as I want to compliment the chairmen of the other committees... The major committees in the House, not just one committee, the major committees of responsibility have come together and we have produced H.R. 3103.

Mr. Speaker, the special rule for coordination of long-term care policies has been misinterpreted by some in the administration. I want to clarify that this rule applies to policies that provide health care benefits only for long-term care…

there are a couple of things I think are important here. One is the predication of this idea. This amendment is based on the idea that there is a subsidy here. Yesterday I reported on the Pepperdine University study, an unbiased study that…

I guess I am sorry the Senator has suggested anyone who does not agree with him is a victim of contributions. I think that is not a very appropriate remark.

Does the Senator recognize that under this bill the rate goes up 40 percent, under the bill as Senator Domenici presents it?

in general terms, it seems to me that what we have been doing in Congress for a year, year-and-a-half and continue to do is to try to find a way to cut through some of the kinds of regulations, maintain the effort without all of the…

I do want to talk about how important it is that we have passage of this bill and I am pleased that, in the process of the discussion, it has been demonstrated that there is not a great deal of difference here. We have already talked about…

Come on, folks. The operative word in the gentleman from California's statement that he just spoke was ``was.'' He is talking about yesterday. I know it is not useful sometimes, or even politic, to deal factually with amendments in front…

just for a moment, I, too, cannot resist the opportunity to make some comment on what we have heard over the last few minutes. I guess it is because I have heard it a half a dozen times since I came here to the Congress in 1989. Every year…

I wanted to comment just a moment on an effort we made last week and intend to make again tomorrow relating to the affairs in the Taiwan Strait. All of us know that there has been now for some time a series of threats, a series of…

I wish to indicate how disappointed I was last evening that we were unable to take up the resolution on Taiwan and the Taiwan Straits. We had prepared a sense-of-the-Congress resolution early in the week, had distributed it and talked to…

I have to say to the Senator that I am not certain. This was designed with the assistance and involvement of the administration to support some of the things they are doing, certainly to rededicate ourselves to the commitments that we have…

I want to begin a discussion of the repeal of this data bank with an underscoring of a point that the gentleman from California made, and that is that this measure was insisted upon by the Senate. This is not a work product that originated…