James Whittier Parker

Let me tell my colleague, the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston], an interesting thing. The change in the depreciation on the alternative minimum tax, let me tell him what it means. If you have got a business and you reinvest in…

Exactly. Now what I wanted to talk about tonight and why we have all joined together is talking about the death tax, which I think is the most un-American tax that our Government has ever put on the American people. Understand, prior to…

We have got a lot of people around this country when I am talking to them about death taxes, they sit back and go, ``That doesn't affect me.'' But whenever I start asking them, I say, ``Didn't you inherit a little bit of land from your…

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 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…

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…

Well, I want the gentleman to understand that I do not have anything against people being rich. I do not mind it at all. Let me tell the gentleman one of the problems we have. I will tell my colleague this story about a family. There is a…

I think my colleagues are carrying on a very interesting debate, and I would like to add a little bit of a personal story that came out of my life that adds to why I think we ought to change our tax structure here in America. I know we are…

Let me point out something. We are talking about a private property issue. Private property rights is I think the cornerstone of our Nation. It is fundamental. I like liberals. I always have. I think liberals are very important, because…

You know, this is what I find fascinating. If people sit and do absolutely nothing, refuse to move and are as lazy as they can be, the government will do anything they can to help them. The fascinating thing is that that individual who…

That independence that the gentleman is talking about basically is getting the government out of somebody's pocketbook and out of their lives. I must tell the gentleman, some of this stuff is pretty simple to me. One of the reasons I…

Washington is confiscating the American dream. Family farmers and small business owners work their entire lives to earn a living and build a farm or a business they and their children can be proud of. Then, at the moment of greatest family…

the amendment that Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania and I are offering represents a simple case for restoring a degree of equity to the funding levels contained in the Energy Conservation Program at the Department of Energy. The Energy Conservation…

One of the problems we had was the DOE made decisions, especially in the last few years, where they have maintained their bureaucracy here in Washington at the expense of programs that we were sending back home. They have drastically cut…

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 want to congratulate the many Members who have been instrumental in bringing to the floor this important health care reform legislation. In the 103d Congress, a number of us worked diligently on a similar, incremental package that would…

there comes a time in everyone's life when he or she must choose between two very bad choices. For me, this vote today is one of those times. For the last several years I have supported lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia. I have made…

the minority whip recently issued a statement in which he brands H.R. 2 as a Republican proposal under which ``Congress would cede to the executive branch one of its most important responsibilities--the power of the purse.'' Well first of…

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.

when I first came to this body in 1989, I was not in favor of a balanced budget amendment. Since that time, I have reached the conclusion that the only way that the U.S. Congress will exercise true fiscal responsibility is through a…

I rise in support of H.R. 5. It is not the intent of unfunded mandates reform to eliminate or scale back good programs that help people. The intent is simply to require the Federal Government to pay for the mandates it imposes on the…

I rise in support of section 102 of the rules package which addresses baseline budgeting. As a member of the Budget Committee, I have strongly advocated the elimination of baseline budgeting and supported passage of the Full Budget…