Mr. Speaker, let me one more time run through what this budget proposal and outline does today, because it is, I believe, the right combination and the right direction for our country, although I will tell my colleagues right off the bat…

the gentleman from Oklahoma deserves a large amount of credit. Let me say that to me there is not any question this ought to be a bipartisan vote. I will tell my colleagues why. The Tax Code should be put in place that enables the…

I want to point out what the Republicans have done since they took the majority in dramatically increasing the funding for the National Institutes of Health.

it is our job to come up with a 5-year number. We believe that the 10-year number will fit. I also want to commend the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis) for voting for the tax cuts that we have brought to this floor, particularly…

I want you to know what is in it because I am so amazed that we were able to accomplish the fact that we are going to keep our mitts off Social Security and keep that surplus there and use it to fix Social Security for three generations of…

Mr. Speaker, we want to go back just for a second and review precisely what was contained in this Republican budget proposal that passed the other day. As Members will recall, the first thing we did was to protect 100 percent of the Social…

let us not assume that our European allies will not live up to their commitment. Let me, furthermore, say that what we are simply saying in this amendment is that when they pledge $140 million, $30 million is not good enough; that when…

I can hardly believe the arguments here. We have spent over $20 billion in the Balkans. We flew 75 percent of the sorties using American flesh and blood to do it. And what this amendment says is that when the Europeans make a pledge, they…

It is about time that the Congress of the United States started asserting itself when it comes to foreign policy. We are not engaging in some major foreign policy decision other than to tell the Europeans to live up to their commitment…

This is actually not a burden-sharing amendment. This is just designed to get our friends across the ocean to live up to their commitment. Just to give my colleagues a sense of where we are, the United States has a GDP, an economy, the…

let me first of all pay tribute to the Blue Dogs, because I think what the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) said early on is right. I think the Blue Dogs have made an enormous contribution in this House towards the effort of being able…

I wanted to complete the thought that the Republican budget does not use extrapolations and interpolations to cook numbers and make things up and make claims that never come true. We will have an ending of the Social Security earnings…

Mr. Chairman, I wanted to just talk for just a few minutes about the economic condition of our country. I wanted to say that it is amazing the prosperity that we are experiencing and continue to experience, with many Americans every day…

I want to just take a few minutes to say that we really believe that today, in the consideration of all these budgets, that we would like to take the six themes that I know the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost) is so fond of. I am…

I am frankly kind of astounded by what I have just heard because I thought that was a speech laying in the bottom of the desk drawer from 6 years ago. It is so far from representing reality, I am really stunned. I want to say what the…

Over the next 5 years. A trillion dollars in paying down part of this publicly-held debt. Secondly, though, we have got this tax relief, and it does not threaten Medicare or Social Security. Social Security is protected in this bill…

I do not want to get off my stride. But let me say that the Republicans, recognizing that the National Institutes of Health really are one of the crown jewels of the Federal Government, have had historic increases in NIH, something that…

I want to just take a moment, because as many in the House know, I have been, along with a number of my colleagues, fighting a battle against corporate welfare. Corporate welfare is defined as those governmental programs that cost the…

let me just make one thing very clear about OPIC making money. OPIC holds government bonds. The Department of the Treasury of the United States then pays interest on the government bonds. So when we talk OPIC making profit, the profit is…

Our founders really did believe that one man should not have the authority to send our people to war. That is why the Constitution of the United States involves the Congress of the United States, because it is through the Congress of the…

it seems clear that the crisis in Kosovo is nearing a decision point. It is obvious that last weekend's NATO summit in Washington was a watershed. Now the administration and other NATO governments are talking openly of at least planning…

As we approach the NATO summit in Washington this weekend, I would hope that this will be a somber occasion for serious reflection about the issues of war and peace that confront us. It seems clear that the crisis in Kosovo is nearing a…

Mr. Speaker, today we offer the first budget of the next century and a new agenda, beginning of a new agenda, for the new millennium. We are going to offer a conference report here today; we have offered it. We are going to vote on a…

All right. I understand. There is a reason to be thankful for small things like scope is what I can tell the gentleman because what this means is that basically the gentleman is saying that we have got to make sure that we take care and…

I love when a speaker can drip with irony and cynicism about the intentions of what we are doing with our fiscal program, but I would choose not to think that the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) would be at all cynical about our…