John Kasich

Two-thirds of the budget is on automatic pilot going through the roof, threatening the future of our children, threatening economic security for every American today, and denying the American people a right to run their own programs with…

It is just a shame that we cannot get or enter into with him the process that forces us to reform those entitlements, is it not?

But we had to drag them kicking and screaming all the way to the water bucket and force them to drink, did we not?

Of course, again, what the people need to understand is this is really the only spending that the Congress of the United States was forced to approve in cooperation with the President. Is that correct? This is the only spending where, if…

So, in other words, even though the President talks about his wanting to, well, he declares the era of big Government being over, he fought for virtually every dime of Washington spending that ends up in the hands of the Federal…

Let me just ask the chairman, if he would, let us just put this in terms that Americans can understand, so when they are going to work tomorrow they can turn to the person next to them and say, you know, we thought the Republicans were not…

You see what is happening to the deficit in the outyears. It goes up, and it threatens the financial security of this country if we don't begin to deal with Federal spending. This is your chance to do it.

The reason why the balanced budget amendment is necessary, Mr. Chairman, is because it will force the Members of Congress to have to sit down and become very creative and very imaginative, and also very pointed about what the role of the…

I do not know where the gentleman from Minnesota quotes his numbers from. He must be reading his own budget or something. But we do not raise the ticket tax. In fact, we lower the ticket tax. They have a higher ticket tax. Second, our…

I have the utmost respect for the Black Caucus because they are being true to the American people about their vision of America and what kind of Government they would have. I do not agree with it, but at least they are being honest about…

I intend to support the gentleman's efforts and those of other Members who believe this preference is essential and will remove the policy from the assumption on this initiative.

I want to thank all my colleagues for participating. I understand there have been a lot of calls coming into the offices of our colleagues from people all across America, the ones that we want to help. I hope that the public calling is…

It is hard to believe, is it not, I say to the gentleman from Arkansas, that we could actually have a package that has crime reform, welfare reform, health care, and incentives to business, some refunds back to the children of these folks…

Do you not think these same folks in this country would say, ``You know, I do not want to have a tax credit if we are going to lay it on other people?'' Would they not feel good if they knew we made choices so that we made this money or so…

In other words, if people in that coffee shop have the money in their pocket rather than sending it to the Government and somehow it filtering down and, of course, that $500 that they would have sent up here, by the time it would get back…

I do want to compliment the gentleman for what I think has been an impressive, a very impressive performance. And I do not mean performance in the sense of an actor, but I mean it in the highest sense of promoting an agenda for the Black…

Mr. Chairman, would the gentleman from Virginia say that the people across this country, the American family, would like to cut paperclips and printing and transportation of bureaucrats in part to help pay for this? Or does the gentleman…

I am delighted to engage in this debate, because I want to say to the gentleman from Wisconsin, the gentleman criticized our overhead spending, and the gentleman said that our overhead spending was a cut in these various administrations…

You just keep running up that hill because one of these days you're going to get up on the top of that hill.

Part of the problem is that this administration says they are going to cut, but what they do is they cut this program and create another government program.

That is exactly right. And what we need is for the American people to stand up and say we do not like the Washington establishment. We want it changed. We want it fixed. We want to reduce the national debt, and how about a little bit for…

There are some choices that have to be made in this bill. But what I want to say to the gentleman is if you are creative, if you are innovative, if you are not afraid of change, you can make mammoth amounts of savings, and you can use that…

I would say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania that in the State of Pennsylvania there are 2,322,808 children whose families would be eligible for this $500 tax credit. It would save the people of Pennsylvania, would send $1,161,404,000…

I would say to the gentleman, that is what makes the document so remarkable, because in every single year of the 5-year budget the Republican budget alternative has lowered deficits, every single year of the 5 years, totaling $150 billion…

There is some spending in that area. But I would say to the gentleman, we have not seen a crime package that is contained in this bill.