What we are about to do today is to enact in permanent law the changes that are necessary in the entitlement programs that will accumulate the savings that will allow us to balance the budget over the course of the next 5 years, and so…

let me just suggest to the Members that are listening, the President said that we should withdraw our forces in December 1996. The Hilleary amendment says that they can be there until December 1997. And at that point in time, our allies…

I was in the Congress the weekend when the bombing of our barracks in Beirut took place. It was a sobering event for all the American people. I think it was during that period that we began to determine that we needed a good set of rules…

let me just suggest to all the people that talk about the fact that people's lives are being put at risk, I do not know whether my colleagues know it or not, but the military does not want this plane. They do not want it. If they wanted…

to me mutually agreeable means that the leaders of the Congress and the President must agree on the construction of a children's health initiative.

Yes, section 204 of the conference report specifically states the additional funds will be available only after the authorizing committees report a Superfund reform bill.

I agree entirely. Additional funding for Amtrak through the intercity passenger rail reserve fund established in the resolution should only be permitted if reform legislation is enacted. In my role as chairman of the House Committee on the…

The Superfund appropriations will be at the President's level if policies can be worked out.

the House majority fully intends to fulfill the bipartisan budget agreement by providing $85 billion in net tax relief for the next 5 years and 250 in net tax relief over 10 years. I would like to point out one possible exception. The text…

This is just no more than an effort to go to a conference, a conference that I have labeled the fait accompli conference. There is not a whole lot that has to be done. We have an agreement between the administration and the Congress of the…

I cannot quite understand why it is that there is this sense. We are pulling the folks who for many years fought against the balanced budget and tax cuts a lot of the way, but I guess I am not convinced we have changed their hearts yet…

I support the idea that we are going to live up to our agreement on $250 billion in net tax cuts, and would agree with the gentleman that our plan is going to give the bulk of the resources to middle-income, hardworking Americans. We favor…

let me yield myself 2 minutes. Let me first of all give some credit to the gentleman from California. I want to give him some credit because, frankly, it is not easy to put a program together, a comprehensive budget. I hope the gentleman…

it is a good thing I have been lifting weights. This is what I could accumulate in terms of what the Republicans and any budget team that I have been associated with since 1989 have put together in terms of details. See this? This is…

let me make it clear that we will, of course, have a budget and it will be delivered to the House. This is not out of the ordinary, that the Congress has not brought this budget up. In the last 20 years, 19 of the times the budget…

let us try to get to this all in perspective. The President came up here several years ago and stood right at this podium and the President said, we are going to use the same arithmetic; Congress is going to use the arithmetic that I use…

No banker that I have ever met in my lifetime would make these kinds of loans to somebody trying to go in and borrow money to build a house or create a small business. The simple fact of the matter is, is that this portfolio and the…

not only does it cost the American taxpayers and come out of the budget to a tune of $120 million, I am not sure if my colleagues understand what a loan guarantee is. A loan guarantee by the Federal Government means if the loan goes bad…

I think one of the best days that we had on this House floor during my 14 years in Congress was the day in which we reformed the welfare system in this country. We said that there should not be giveaway programs, that people in fact ought…

I just wanted to rise and make the point... we should take our time to make sure that that wage credit is viewed carefully.

I would like to initially congratulate the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] for his relentlessness in being able to pursue welfare reform and he deserves the lion's share of the credit, along with the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Archer]…

I want to compliment him on his statement, that Republicans consider the national parks to be one of the real jewels of our Federal Government, that we not only want to maintain the parks as we know them, but we also want to begin to solve…

I think it is pretty amazing for the American people to make note of the fact that in the other body, 74 Members of the other body voted for a significant, the most significant change in welfare that we have seen in this country since…

In other words, Madam Chairman, if you are under the age of 18 or over the age of 50, this does not apply to you. Only if you are childless and able-bodied and if there is an unemployment rate over 10 percent, it can be waived, is that…

let me make clear what the amendment does so that there is no confusion. If you are able-bodied, single, between the ages of 18 and 50 and you get food stamps, we are saying you have to work 20 hours a week. It is no more complicated than…