Maurice Hinchey

just before the August recess the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed urging Presidential candidate Bob Dole to embrace a return to supply side economics. Shortly thereafter the Journal printed a letter I authored in response to that…

just before the August recess, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed written by economist Alan Reynolds of the Hudson Institute. That op-ed, entitled ``Clintonomics doesn't measure up,'' urged presidential candidate Bob Dole to…

first I want to express my thanks to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Clay] for his tireless and dedicated leadership on behalf of working Americans and to strongly support this legislation, H.R. 3448. At long last this body today has the…

I thank our friend, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman], the distinguished chairman of the Committee on International Relations, for arranging this tribute to our friend, Hamilton Fish, Jr. Mr. Speaker, it was with deep sorrow that we…

I think that the amendment of the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] will provide us with the opportunity to do precisely that, spend that money a little bit more wisely. This money would take money out of that Naval Petroleum Reserve…

old habits break hard. That is as true of nations as it is of people. We are in the habit of spending enormous amounts of money on the military budget. Right now we are spending approximately the same amount as the next 10 nations…

I know that the gentleman is very concerned, as I am and I think many of the people in this House are, about the future of both Medicare and Medicaid. Last week we saw once again the trustees, the Medicare trustees, issue their annual…

They were put into place because it had become clear that overbilling had become rampant in the system, and this was something that was done to ensure fairness and to prevent overbilling. I think the point that the gentleman has just…

Absolutely. I served in the State legislature, and I know State legislatures and governors are not embarrassed about trying to use Federal funds in creative ways to solve their own budgetary problems. In New York, for example, where the…

Oh, yes. That is exactly right. On top of everything else it is as much as an additional 40 percent. So if their bill ever became law, what we would have in the case of a senior citizen who required some surgery of some kind, say for…

Obviously, what would happen to the families of those people if Medicare were changed in the way that they are proposing to change it, to block grant it, reduce the amounts of money that is available, send what is left in the form of block…

Well, there seems to be no limit on the temerity of some of the majority party in this House and their ability to attack Medicare and Medicaid. I know you have talked about Medicaid earlier. In my State, and I assume it is probably similar…

Yes. Could be tomorrow or could be Wednesday. In any case, what they want to do is take the limit off the billing ceilings for health care, and that would expose Medicare beneficiaries, the people who are reliant upon Medicare, to pay out…

It is clear that that is his intention. I think you are right for pointing out that there are certain ideological differences. There are things relating to public policy that separate the Democratic Party from the Republican Party, not…

Mr. Chairman, there has been much discussion about the new Republican budget and about how moderate it is, but in fact this budget is in most ways as harsh as the budget that was proposed by the Republicans last year, and which the…

This amendment clearly deals with new tenants coming into housing. There is a turnaround of about 15 percent a year in subsidized housing alone. Any senior citizen or disabled resident who is making more than 30 percent of area median…

I am from the State of New York where we have a long history of protecting the environment on a bipartisan basis. As a matter of fact, New York was the State that gave to the Nation Theodore Roosevelt, who more than any other person was…

I am surprised that the leadership of this House would suggest that requesting an increase in the minimum wage for American workers is an unfunded mandate. If we follow that logic, adhere to it, then this body would not be able to do…

this is a very popular measure, this lockbox proposal. It enjoys wide bipartisan sponsorship and even broader support here in the House, and perhaps that is equally true in the other house as well. But I think it is important that at least…

this country has a major problem. It has a major domestic investment deficit. The domestic investment deficit has been established to be as high as $1 trillion a year. That is the primary reason why we are seeing a decline in the standard…

We want the investment trustees to have as much latitude as possible to act in the context of their lights in the best interests of the people they represent in their pension system. We want them to do it insofar as it is consistent with…

this bill has been described as a clash between the super rich and the super wealthy. That Is unquestionably true, but in the clash of these titans, the question is, who stands for the American public? The answer to that question is…

first of all let me express my profound respect and appreciation for the work of the chairman of the subcommittee. He and I share many of the same values and interests with regard to the Nation's natural and historical resources. But…

there is no doubt that our legal system can and should be improved. But this measure like so much of the Contract With America, goes too far. It is extreme, it is radical and it is unfair. It would deny people their opportunity to go to…

Mr. Chairman, I think it is true that the real threat to our security does come from the former Soviet Union, nuclear threat to our security does come from the former Soviet Union, but not in the way that some of our friends and colleagues…