Martin Hoke: “Actually, no. We are about 3 out of 10. We have congressional accountability, we have knocked down unfunded mandates…”

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…

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…

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…

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…