James Whittier Parker

I do not believe that empathy has any role, and it has not for the last 5 years that I have been on the State court, in making any decisions.

I very rarely see people who have evil in their hearts. It is just people making really bad decisions because they did not have any other option.

The tribe that I referred to in my State is not in my district, but I feel strongly that it is up to us to keep our word. This problem is so great that we have to look at it from a variety of different ways, and I must say that preempting…

Let me just say there is a $65 million shortfall. We have added $26 million. That leaves us $39 million, I mean around $40 million. There is still a shortfall there. So this windfall, supposed windfall is not a windfall, it is still a…

That is it. There is not much else to say. I do not question the motives of the chairman of the subcommittee, nor the ranking member. They are two of the finest people we have had in this House or ever served in the House. They care about…

I have to tell the gentleman, it will mean a difference of $949,000 a year. That is a massive amount of impact.

We are also deeply concerned with the language beginning on line 8, page 81 of the bill, which instructs IHS to alter its current contract support cost system to a 'pro rata proportion' system. We ask you to support Representative Mike…

There are the liberals in this body, Mr. Speaker, who will do anything in their power to make this a class battle. They get their power from turning class against class. We know who they are. We know the games that they are playing. Makes…

Even though the tax cuts that we are giving are not as great as they should be, I think they are kind of like popcorn. You just cannot eat just a little. When the American people just get a touch of what it is like for the Federal…

Let me mention one thing, because we tend in this country over and over again to downcast the IRS. It is an easy thing to do, I guess even in Biblical times the people did not think very highly of the tax collector. But in this country…

Let me tell you one thing. I have watched the liberals talk about how much they love tax cuts now. Now they control the House over the last 16 years. They had a lot of opportunities. We could have had tax cuts, and believe me…

And they create less jobs, and also businesses wind up leaving this country because they cannot make it in the environment in which they find themselves.

Now I have got one question. Who among us who makes $40,000 a year can afford to meet the staggering burden of a death tax? Now to me the clear solution is this: We should eliminate the death tax. It is an unfair tax. It is a tax that puts…

I find it very encouraging that after a long period of time we are finally getting around to talking about giving a break to the American people, something that they have needed for a long time. I think that issue for many Americans is…

I want to tell my colleague what the wealthy do. The wealthy will take care of themselves, they always have and they always will. They hire high-priced lawyers and high-priced accountants and they get by and get around anything that…

Just to put the figures into perspective, if we look at the three basic divisions that are in this bill, we are talking about State grants and weatherization, DOE, industrial programs in DOE transportation programs. The State grants and…

I personally want a clean unfunded mandates bill. I think it is what we need, and I believe the American people have let us know that time and time again. Join with me in defeating this amendment.