Martin Hoke

I rise, Mr. Speaker, tonight to recognize one of northeast Ohio's leading citizens, Mr. Walter ``Chick'' Holtkamp. Chick is the retiring CEO of the Holtkamp Organ Co., our Nation's leading manufacturer of pipe organs. It is my purpose…

As the Ethics Committee prepares its recommendations to the full House, it should release only the information which the committee agrees is relevant and necessary to support its findings. To ask a Member, any Member, to also respond in…

I looked at this survey that has been completed by HHS about drug use among teenagers. I do not get it. I am confused about why. Here we have got overall drug use that has doubled in the last 4 years. Remember that after there was a…

I have to report to you that there is a dark occurrence happening in many parts of America right now where a fraud is being perpetrated on people who are vulnerable, people who are sometimes more gullible than maybe many in the population…

Mr. Speaker, we did a threefer this week. A threefer. First of all, we passed welfare reform that fundamentally changes the welfare system, and it ways no more something for nothing. We are not going to condemn people to a cycle of…

my maternal grandparents were Romanian immigrants. They came to this country at the turn of the century. My grandfather learned to speak English from his two daughters, my mother and my aunt, whom he sent to college in Cleveland…

in his 1935 State of the Union Address, Franklin Roosevelt called welfare a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. John Kennedy in 1962 said, ``No lasting solution to the problem of poverty can be bought with a welfare check.''…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3435, the Lobbying Disclosure Technical Amendments Act of 1996 addresses several technical issues which have been raised during the initial months of implementation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. The amendments…

I also want to speak about the campaign finance reform bill that we defeated yesterday, as well as just campaign finance reform generally, because the one thing that has been said repeatedly is that it was a good thing that this bill was…

First of all, we reduce from $5,000 to $2,500 per election the amount of money that a political action committee can give to a candidate. The previous speaker from Connecticut suggests that this means that working people and less affluent…

What mean-spirited right winger said the following: The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration, fundamentally…

I want to address my comments today to the very hard-working rank and file union members of America whose dues are being used for political purposes and activities that they are probably both not aware of an almost undoubtedly do not agree…

I happen to have the privilege of living in what is known as the frost belt where one of these research planes does deicing research in northeastern Ohio. Somehow, somebody missed the point about sending deicing research aircraft to the…

Since 1993, the agency has conducted 12 different financial and management analyses of these consolidation proposals and still has not been able to show convincingly that the consolidation is going to save NASA money or that it is…

the Medicare trustees have just issued their annual report and the news in that report is not good. Medicare is now losing money for the first time ever. We are actually taking in less than we are spending. It is going to be completely…

I would like to say just very, very briefly that what this does is essentially it is a ``Buy American'' amendment that applies to landing gear with certain exceptions and its makes it clear that the landing gear that will go on our…

Mr. Speaker, this budget plan is the only plan, only plan, that fulfills the commitment to balance the budget by 2002 with lower deficits than the President's budget in every single year. It provides a $500 per child tax credit for working…

you know the one thing, or one of the things, that a representative democracy cannot tolerate is the poison of disinformation and deceit and demagoguery. And it is a solitary, singular and extraordinarily disturbing time when it is…

I rise with some regret because the time has been given to me so graciously by the gentleman from New York, who is not only a great chairman but he is a great marine. But I still nonetheless rise with no less resolve in opposition to this…

Today is tax freedom day and today we are setting a new record for tax freedom day. It is not a record that we can be very proud of, but it is a record that I think I ought to bring to your attention and to the attention of the American…

once again we hear what is the pithy disinformation campaign that is the basis of the Democrats' political hope in the future. What they are betting is they are betting that the American people will not see through this disinformation…

I am completely opposed to this amendment because it is such horrible, horrible policy. It misses the fundamental point of how we raise money, of how we tax and why we tax and what the circumstances are for taxation. The fact is, why do we…

let us think about and talk about, just for a moment, exactly what the 104th Congress has done with respect to the environment, because there is so much deception that is being propagated about it, it is difficult to separate the truth…

In 1950, the average income family in America had 2 percent of its income paid to the Government in taxes. In 1996, that number has gone up to about 25 percent. We have had, you could say, a 12 times, a 1,200 percent increase in the…