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I have a chart here that I think goes to exactly what the gentleman is talking about. This is a quotation from the trustees of the Medicare trust fund. These are five people, men and women appointed by the President of the United States…
I just happen to have a chart that shows exactly what we are going to do here. We are going to go from $4,816 per person per beneficiary per year up to $6,734 per beneficiary per year. That takes into account all of the new additions to…
The health care component of inflation in the private sector right now is about 4.4 percent. But in fact there are other models in the private sector of specific companies or industries that have been able to flatten their health care…
Mr. Chairman, I rise to engage the gentleman from Indiana in a colloquy. Mr. Chairman, as you know, I recently submitted for the Record this amendment which was designed to restore some degree of sanity to the official travel policies at…
The fact is we have got a problem at the Department of Energy with travel, and it is not just a small problem, because what it does do is it takes money away from the accounts that safeguard our nuclear energy program, and it is spending…
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…
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.
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…
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…
we come back fresh, relaxed; refreshed in the spirit of good will, working together, feeling good; feeling good about having been away, frankly, away from the partisan ship, away from the negativity, away from the acrimony. And we come…
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…
last night when the minority leader presented his motion to the House to recommit, he said the following, and I quote: This motion to recommit is very simple. It does four simple things. When I read the 16-page motion, I found out it…
I want you to listen carefully to the following quote and tell me what shameless, unrepentant, unreconstructed, trickle-down, supply-sider said it: ``Tax rates are too high today and tax revenue is too low. The soundest way to raise the…
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…
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…
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?
The question that I wanted to ask the gentleman was if he was aware that 39.2 percent of all Federal income tax paid is paid for by only 3.3 percent of the taxpayers, the top 3.3 percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of the taxes? That being…
What you are saying is there is a direct correlation between raising rates and lowering revenue, lowering rates and raising revenue?
do you remember back in the Presidential campaign of 1992 when President Clinton made a number of promises to the American people? He promised that he was going to give us a middle-class tax cut. He promised that he was going to lift the…
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.
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?
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…
Reclaiming my time, that does not answer the question. The question is who put it into the conference report? Clearly it was the junior Senator from Illinois. And your attempt to somehow smear this Speaker on this, when the Speaker had…
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.
the liberals who ran Congress for 40 years could never seem to get enough of the taxpayers' money. Every year they would come here and moan and complain that they just did not have enough money to do all those wonderful things that…
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