Mr. Chairman, today we offer the first budget of the next century and a new agenda for the new millennium. I think this is a great day for the House, because we have been able to move forward from an era not very long ago when, as we…

look. We got involved against Saddam Hussein because we were able to explain the vital direct national interests of the United States, we were able to get the support of the American people and we had a good timetable. We made a mistake in…

what is an interesting proposition is that everybody in America now, from the President to the Democrats to the Republicans, claims we have a balanced budget. Why is it that we claim that we have a balanced budget? Well, it is not…

this is just an amazing debate and a simple question that everybody has to ask themselves. The question is, do we trust the people at home, the elected school board members and the community, to try to decide what they want to spend their…

let us just go back for a second and think about what we are talking about here. Over the last 5 years, the Federal Government has spent $7.8 trillion. Over the next 5 years, we are scheduled to grow from $7.8 trillion to $9 trillion. The…

Despite the fact that the budget resolution draft does not include specific assumptions, the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight is reconciled for savings of about $1.6 billion. It is not our intent under this resolution that…

any way they want to try to cook it, they can cook it. But the fact is, think about this for a second, Federal spending is going to go from $7.8 trillion over the last five years to $9.1 trillion over the next five years, and we are…

do you not think it is time that mothers and fathers have the power to be able to get their kids the best education they can possibly get and that most of the money ought to be put in the classroom? Those are the kind of things that I…

I am answering the gentleman's question. Instead of the Federal Government spending $9.1 trillion with all these things you talk about, guess what? You are going to get to spend $9 trillion. Do you know something else? The families in your…

there are 150 job training programs scattered across 15 Federal agencies; 340 programs in housing, including 18 involving community development, 49 concerning public housing, 8 concerning the homeless and 103 that are enacted. There are…

I looked inside the hotel room, and there was mom and dad and the kids. And I say to Members of the House, like many of them in the gallery here today, and there was grandma and grandpa. Then I looked inside the room real quickly, because…

Mr. Chairman, let us make no mistake about it. Under this proposal, first of all, it is deficit-neutral. Secondly, for those who have been struggling to repeal the 4.3 cent gas tax, we would take that to the Committee on Ways and Means…

What we want to do is keep 3 cents in Washington to maintain the current interstate system. If you come from Montana, where you are losing in this bill, we are going to keep a penny here to help you and the other heavy transit States. We…

The fact is that we relate to each other best when we can touch each other's hearts; and it really does not matter in the Congress of the United States if, at the end of the day, whether we think differently. What matters at the end of the…

Mr. Speaker, I am very disappointed the conferees did not reflect the clear will of the House in the conference report's provision dealing with Bosnia. The mission of the U.S. Armed Forces in Bosnia has been characterized by a failure to…

you wonder about Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in California. This is his legacy, to balance the budget and cut taxes. The effort to do this, to shake us out of the status quo, has been driven by the energy of a great Republican…

This obviously is the beginning of a very important debate and the beginning of a very exciting 2 days. We bring before the House today and tomorrow the first real budget in real terms with real savings starting immediately, for the first…

let me get the attention of my colleagues in the House on both sides of the aisle. We were just able to pass a bill that started to dramatically reform the operation of the Federal Government and get us to a balanced budget. What is this…

I believe that the people who would be the most affected by the raise from 65 to 67 are us because it is phased in over a long period of time. Now I am just going to suggest that if we think that in order to help the children we have to…

But let me just suggest, though, that I am very pleased to hear the gentleman say that he recognizes that there is a next step. Because if we walk away from this problem of the baby boomers retiring, as the gentleman knows, we are not…

First of all, these motions to instruct are kind of gimmicky, to be truthful. They are just designed for somebody to come to the House floor, lay out difficult positions that are hard to win in a debate and, basically, they do not have the…

I also want to say what confuses me is I was in this Congress for over a decade listening to people talk about all these big giveaways to the rich, powerful special interests. Yet, the then-majority did not have the guts to take any of…

I have to take a moment to pay very high tribute to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer], and I would like the Members of the House to note something that is very significant that sometimes goes unnoticed in this debate. Americans all of…

let me first of all compliment my colleague and friend, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Spratt]. He has been obviously in a difficult position with some of his very top leadership aggressively opposing the agreement. He has also…

I think what everyone should be very happy about today is that what we are about to do here again... it is based on controlling the growth of entitlement programs in a variety of areas... We have not only enacted the savings that will…