Martin Hoke

To be a little bit more serious, it seems to me that there is a question about this particular bill and the rule and whether what we have seen here tonight is a reflection of a systemic problem in the House with respect to the…

Are you suggesting that one person's, one Member's pork is another Member's laudable project of great American strength and importance?

I rise to correct the mischaracterization of the OPIC amendment that I have. It calls for a privatization feasibility study. It was mischaracterized by the gentleman from Connecticut as being the elimination of OPIC. It is not. It does…

The word, that word has been used many times in the context of general spoken admonition to an entire group by both sides. If we are going to go in a different direction, that is fine with me.

One after another after another of our liberal colleagues take to the well to carp, to moan, to deceive and to distort. They can say the most outlandish things with such ease, you would swear that it was Mephistopheles himself that was up…

Rome burns and Nero fiddles. Since yesterday at this time, the national debt has increased $548 million. That is almost $23 million every single hour, $383,000 every single minute, $9,000 every second. Every newborn baby enters the world…

I want to report to the Congress that I have had extraordinarily positive feedback from the people of northeastern Ohio regarding what we have called the Contract With America and regarding the direction that they believe that this…

What you are saying is there is a direct correlation between raising rates and lowering revenue, lowering rates and raising revenue?

My understanding is that that cut Social Security benefits for senior citizens by $24.8 billion. Not a single Republican voted for that either in the House or the Senate?

The gentleman said there were some winners, and the senior citizens are the winners under the bill. Have the senior citizens been the losers in the past year or so?

Does not what this chart reflect or prove is the central problem that we have got with taxation, and that is this chorus that you hear over and over and over which is to say, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich? The problem with it is…

What we are going to do tomorrow on the floor, we are going to repeal that device that the President passed just a year ago. And I see my time is expired, but we are going to repeal those cuts, and we are going to restore those cuts so…

Not only did the President not fight to twist some arms to get the balanced budget amendment passed but, in fact, he worked day and night tirelessly, as hard as he possibly could, to make sure the balanced budget amendment failed.

What I will say is we are going to on Wednesday restore the $25 billion in cuts that were made in Social Security, cuts to senior citizens by this Congress. Not a single Republican voted in favor of those cuts in August of 1993, and we are…

I know the answer. The answer is the junior Senator from Illinois, the Democrat, Ms. Moseley-Braun. She is the one that insisted on it. She is the one that asked it be put in the conference report.

My amendment specifically deals with cases of early offers of settlement in contingent fee cases. To the extent that defense counsels have entered into contingent fee arrangements with their clients, I cannot see that it would be a…

I think this reflects two things. No. 1 is the compelling quality of your own persuasiveness in bringing these things forward. Second, is the good things that happen when we have an open rule. We are actually debating, we are listening…

Is bipartisan. As you point out, I said it earlier, we have strong, strong bipartisan support on every single measure we passed. You remember, what was the toughest victory for the Democrats in 1993?

My hat is absolutely off to every senior Republican Member in this Congress. I am amazed; I mean it, I know what it was like the last 2 years. Never having been in a legislative body before, I know what it is like just getting beat up…

What else do we have in the Contract With America that is designed specifically, aimed at job creation?

She is being taxed on inflation, is she not? Is that not really what is being taxed?

Let me ask you a question, if I could, I say to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston]. What is that tax on from $10,000 to a half-a-million dollars, is that on what is really being taxed there with this capital gains tax?

In Germany there is no capital gains tax. In Japan there is a capital gains tax of 5 percent, which I understand from accountants gets zeroed out with some exemptions, so there is effectively a zero capital gains tax. It is by creating…

Could I ask the gentlewoman a question about the capital gains thing, because our friends from the other side of the aisle, as soon as they hear the words capital gains, the accusation is oh, that is for rich people, that is just something…

The gentlewoman is not exactly a newcomer to politics. But to jump into this with 9 weeks, I wish I had only 9 weeks. That is fantastic. What was it that motivated the gentlewoman to want to be a part of this, to get involved with the U.S…