NAN A. S. HAYWORTH

here we go again. As the American people look to this Congress to find innovative solutions, the guardians of the old order, those who tell us that big government is always the best answer, those who would confuse the process of education…

$8 billion. Inside the Beltway here, in this land of bureaucracy in the District of Columbia, $8 billion may not seem like a lot of money, but, Mr. Speaker, to the people of the Sixth District of Arizona, and I would say to people…

There is nothing ignoble or selfish or somehow lacking civic-mindedness for people wanting to hang onto more of their hard-earned money and send less of it to Washington. Mr. Speaker, you know something is wrong when the average American…

I was struck repeatedly in town hall meetings by the concern Arizonans share in the notion of tax reform. Indeed, tax is the three-letter-word that has too often become a four-letter-word because of the circumstances surrounding the tax…

Is this $500 per child tax credit helping almost 90 percent of our population earning under $75,000? That is something that we absolutely have to herald and have to remind the American people of, and, further, I think it is just vital to…

I am appealing to the good sense of bipartisanship, as we have so many friends here on the other side.

Imagine, a single mother with three children, $1,500 in her pocket. What would that mean? I think it would mean a lot.

For too long those who have come to this Chamber have always found a reason to say yes; have always found a reason to spend more and more of the American taxpayers' money. For almost a half century, it has been fact in this city, in this…

Mr. Speaker, what the Secretary has been doing is raiding the pension funds. What the Secretary has done, and this is the fundamental part of this debate, are we so in love with government that we fail to live up to our responsibility…

Are we willing to rob future generations to pay the seemingly endless bills of today? That is the bottom line on this issue.

I have one comment in particular about blackmail. The record will show in our discussions with the White House, the new majority has moved some $400 billion in the direction of the White House, and the White House has responded with only…

This is the issue, whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan…

After watching the State of the Union address the other night, I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case it's not flattery but grand larceny, the intellectual theft of ideas that you…

Again recalling the words of President Reagan, and I think this rings so true today, "The size of the Federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern." Indeed what we have seen for the past half…

I ran into a reporter who will remain nameless, from one of the major television networks. "How is it going, Congressman?" "Great." "Did you see the headlines in the paper? It says President embracing GOP agenda." This reporter said, "You…

Indeed, as old man eloquent John Quincy Adams said upon his election, after serving as President, upon his election to the House of Representatives, there is no higher honor than service in the people's House. Mr. Speaker, and to my friend…

I think my friend offers an interesting analogy, and what I have often said, despite some of the labels and names that have been bandied about this Chamber, what difference does it make if an idea is called conservative or liberal or…

I am so glad to see my friend from Connecticut here, because once again he returns to the key point in this debate. We are trying to realize budgetary savings, not by eviscerating programs but by reducing the rate of growth. I cannot help…

What the American people want, Mr. Speaker, is this: A government that achieves an honest consensus, that saves not only the seniors of this generation, but generations yet unborn; a commonsense budget and set of priorities that preserves…

I am here, Mr. Speaker, to use this time to address what is not a credibility gap, but instead a credibility canyon. Indeed, all members of the new majority, as well as members of the minority, welcome the President of the United States to…

I believe, as part of the Corrections Day, this piece of legislation is eminently reasonable because it resolves a problem that agricultural interests and endeavors have experienced with the Clean Water Act. H.R. 2567 will modify the way…

But moving on to the broader context, since our friends on the other side talk so much about reinventing government, we will borrow that phrase and say we are going to reinvent government right here and right now, not with a…

it is always refreshing to hear the comments of my good friend from Massachusetts, and to hear the frustration on that side of the aisle, especially when it comes to the Secretary of the Treasury and his effort to dillydally around with…

speaking of Orwellian doublespeak, to hear my friends from New York talk about Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and mention the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the same breath is truly astounding. My colleagues, once…

Reclaiming my time briefly for this question, where was he for the first 3 weeks after the public law was signed? Where was the negotiation for those 3 weeks?