Martin Hoke

Mr. Speaker, today is a day that we are celebrating with this special order this resolution where we have named March 25, 1996, as Greek Independence Day, a national day of celebration of Greek and American democracy. I guess what is…

I will tell him why I will not. Because that particular piece of legislation gives another $500 billion of additional extension on the debt ceiling, a half a trillion dollars. I think that is absolutely dead wrong. It is the kind of…

I want to shock him with the disclosure that I, in fact, am in at least partial agreement with the comments that he just made regarding the debt service, or, I am sorry, the debt ceiling and the extension of the debt ceiling. I would…

for the past 8 months liberal interest groups have been advertising in my district, and we have heard a drum beat of the same message here in the Congress from the minority, where millions of dollars have been spent trying to scare seniors…

I am going to vote for it. But I have to say that it is with some great reluctance, particularly with respect to the ABM section of the bill. Let me read first of all what the President said in his message. This is his veto message: First…

I really appreciate that. As the gentleman knows, I am the author of H.R. 2483, the Defend America Act. I appreciate the gentleman's support on that, and especially in light of this veiled threat from Chinese officials. I think it is…

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…

I was on a plane last week and a fellow citizen of Lakewood turned to me and he said: You know, Martin, it seems to be the difference between the new Democrat and the old Democrat is that the new Democrats are talking a great game, a great…

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…

The truth is that every reasonable person in this body, every responsible person who has examined the situation, every responsible person in the administration, every person who is looking at it in a dispassionate and temperate way, not…

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…

Who has written this letter now in a very, very political way. He has decided to jump in politically because he sees that apparently the President's approach to this, which had been, frankly, very evenhanded, which had recognized that…

Simply said, no Member of Congress should vote for $270 billion in Medicare cuts believing that reductions of this size have been recommended by the Medicare trustees or that such reductions are needed now to prevent an imminent funding…

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This one thing that we did, and we did it in the Committee on the Budget... it is real numbers, it is truth in budgeting.

the Democrats clearly have not understood that, in fact, in reality, we did abolish baseline budgeting, and so they are using the same language that they used before, but I think it is very helpful to actually take apart their argument…

I want to ask the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Shays] a question, because I know that the Speaker has been following this very closely, and I know that he is very curious himself about how it is possible that we are going to go from a…

Is the real key to this not choice, giving our senior citizens the choices that we have in the Government, that people in the private sector have got?

Just like a private citizen, just like you and I, just like somebody in the private sector. You are not going to be stuck in a 1965 plan and not have any other options or places to go.

Mr. Speaker, that is what is such a shame, because if you are a senior citizen and we actually enact this piece of legislation to reform Medicare and save it and improve it and simplify it, which I believe we will, then as a senior citizen…

one of the options that individuals have, and the gentlewoman from Connecticut will be pleased to know this, is if a senior citizen chooses, chooses to stay in a 35-year-old plan, they may do that. If they choose to do that, they have that…

I would say my understanding that what the gentleman from Connecticut intends to do with Medicare is to cut $270 billion from Medicare over the next 7 years in order to give $280 billion in tax cuts strictly to wealthy Americans.

As the Washington Post says, it is Medigogery. I would like to make a prediction. I think this may help some people put this in context and perspective, because it is do brutally partisan here. It is very unfortunate, because so much of…

Medicare has been a success, helping to provide health care to millions of Americans who otherwise could not afford it. Yet today, with Medicare facing a financial crisis, Democrats are playing politics instead of coming up with…

It is perfectly legitimate, it is utterly appropriate that we would actually give a preference to referenda, popular referenda, State referenda, because that is the only instance in which the people speak themselves. It is the purest form…