Martin Hoke: “So, if there is a partisan issue, I suppose you could argue that these are all Democrats and that there are not…”

I wanted to talk particularly to the senior citizens today, Mr. Speaker, because I know that there is a great deal of anxiety and concern and some confusion as well. My gosh, if I were watching this debate on a day-to-day basis at home and…

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…

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…

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.''…