I also wish to take a few minutes, as others have, to talk about some of the issues that will be before us. We have a great opportunity now to move forward on these issues, many of which we have discussed in the last session. Many are…

I understand section 222 of the Transportation, Treasury and Postal title provides the Committee on Appropriations with proper access to IRS facilities for oversight purposes but not the ability to examine individual tax returns, data, or…

I continue to hear a lot of complaint and criticism when talking about spending when indeed it is revenue neutral... ranchers who, because of the drought, had to sell their herd and cattle, they don't have to pay on capital gains now for 4…

When you have medical providers who go to underserved areas, they are given financial incentives to go, and in the past those incentives which caused them to go there were taxable. We were able to take that taxable business out, so we will…

I find it ironic that this particular conference, the first conference in my memory, was held entirely with the public permitted complete access, televised over the internal television structure for the entire time of the conference. There…

I rise today to recognize a key member of my team who I have worked alongside for almost 10 years now and most importantly, to mark a milestone of dedicated service to this body, the U.S. Senate. On September 24, 2004, Pam Buline marked…

This conference report is in front of us tonight due to a number of Members doing yeoman's service. There is a provision in this bill that was alluded to by the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture that is long overdue to be changed…

If you want to create jobs here in this country, if you want to preserve the jobs that are here in this country, if you want to make American companies more competitive, if you want to give them a better chance to compete in the…

Mr. Speaker, the U.S. economy has experienced robust growth in the past 12 months, and it can be largely attributed to the tax relief this Congress provided the American people in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Today we are considering H.R. 4520…

The rule and the Statement of Managers upon closer examination, we believe, contain some ambiguity as to which deductions are disallowed. The intent of the rule is to disallow only deductions for expenses that relate directly to generating…

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home. We do have a plan. In war, obviously, the plan does not always turn out the way one hopes and we have to change from time to time…

In history, Mr. Speaker, there are those who opposed change, modernization. They were called Luddites. Please vote ``no'' on the motion to instruct. Do not be a Rangelite.

This Democratic motion to instruct conferees reflects what is their increasingly obvious 19th century state of mind. One would think, listening to the comments of our colleagues on the left, that we are back in the industrial revolution…

I would tell my friend, the gentleman from California, that I am a little concerned, because he has admitted that his own private purchasing choices are that he buys foreign products, but he is here on the floor trying to change the law of…

I can understand why my colleagues on the other side would not want to hear the list of Democratic Senators who supported the international tax provisions because it pretty well demolishes their argument, and what they want to do is…

one of the votes was a rejection of 77 to 22 and the other one was a rejection of 74 to 23, and people can reach their own conclusion on those votes rather than my presenting a conclusion, which was, I thought they were overwhelmingly…

I do hope, as we close this debate, that people listen to what people have said, but, more importantly, watch what they do when they vote. It has been announced that the ranking member of the Committee on Ways and Means voted ``no'' in…

I believe it is appropriate, as we move toward the end of our session, to take a look at those issues that are before us that are most important. Certainly, we have had a difficult 4 years. Unusual and difficult events have happened which…

the LoBiondo amendment to Section 221 of H.R. 5006, the ``Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005,'' would make a change to Medicare Part A payment policy, and thus falls…

I offer this as a second degree to the pending amendment of the Senator from Vermont. The amendment specifically restricts the Department's ability to conduct competitions under President Bush's competitive sourcing initiative, which is an…

my assumption is that the closing remarks on the part of the ranking member of the Trade Subcommittee was an endorsement. It sounded as though we began with an extremely flawed product and, through their efforts, they were successful in…

The point is, we have a problem with the process here. Obstruction is available. I don't think that is what is intended. At the same time, we have accomplished a good many things that certainly are important and that we need to recognize…

of course we all have spent a good deal of time concerned about the direction we are taking here, the number of things we are accomplishing, the fact that many of the things we would like to do have not been accomplished. I think that is a…

To make sure that everyone is perfectly clear, I think we may need to recount what occurred in committee in the discussion of this bill in front of the full Committee on Ways and Means. There were three Members on the minority side that…

The Clinton Administration did the first inventory and found that more than 850,000 Federal employees out of 1.8 million were in jobs that were commercial in nature. The federal government was paying individuals to do jobs that could also…