James Whittier Parker

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.

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.

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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…

We do not achieve the purpose that we are looking for if we penalize individual tribes out there that have been trying to do what we ask them to do. We have changed the rules on them again. It is not the first time the Federal Government…

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…

my amendment strikes onerous language in the bill which dramatically alters current law as it relates to Indian health services. The Indian Health Service was established to provide direct health care to Indian tribes by providing…

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

let us put this in perspective. Let us take a tribe that has taken the initiative, and they are paying for their administrative cost, and they have done what we have asked them to do. What I have told the tribes, if the Federal Government…

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…

let me point out. I want to make sure that everyone knows that the appropriating subcommittee has gone farther than anyone has ever gone in the past in trying to rectify this problem. I also want people to know that the administration has…

I submit that we have failed miserably. The status quo that we are talking about today says that what we want to do is continue the same process, the same path we have been walking down, and if we continue to do that, we are going to get…

I think it is well-intentioned, but they do not know the difference between a skidder and a knuckle boom. I must tell my colleagues that I do not care for the Dicks amendment a whole lot. I am going to support it simply because it is…

that is one point that people do not understand. See, people in this country could have a severe problem and they do not even know they have got it. I listened to people a while ago in other special orders. They believe what they say and…

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…

Let me close by saying, I want to thank my colleagues the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Talent], the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston], the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Hoekstra], and the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Riley] for…

I must tell the gentleman the best social program in the world that has ever been invented is a good job, and one of the problems we have got in this country: When we penalize companies, when we penalize small business so that they cannot…

Now they pay taxes. Now they pay FICA taxes, they pay Social Security taxes, but they do not pay income tax. And what the President is proposing is that he wants to give an income tax break to people who do not pay income taxes. Now that…

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…

One thing that he said which had struck me, and it has stayed with me over years now, he said the American people have not experienced the benefits of a surplus economy since World War II. I think it is significant that we have not had a…

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…

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.