Martin Hoke: “What you are saying is there is a direct correlation between raising rates and lowering revenue, lowering rates and…”

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…

I wanted just to confirm what we have discussed earlier with respect to the ballistic missile defense that is so important to the national security of our country, and that even though we have obviously lost this opportunity to build that…

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…

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.''…