Martin Hoke: “I look in the paper this morning and read the Washington Post, only to find out that in fact the chairman of the House…”

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, 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…

While there is a need to address the financial stability of Medicare, the congressional majority's claims are simply mistaken. As trustees of the Part A Medicare Trust Fund which is the subject of the current debate, and authors of an…

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…