Martin Hoke

Let us tick off exactly what we have done so far. Cut the fat out of Congress, reduced committee staff by a third, cut the budget of Congress. We have made Congress subject to the same laws that everybody else in this country is subject…

Let me give both of the gentlemen some good news. I happen to have the honor of sitting on the Judiciary Committee, where today we marked up and passed out and reported out the reform of habeas corpus, which is the Latin phrase referring…

I heard Phil Gramm say it very well the other day. He said, ``The problem with welfare is it's no longer a safety net. It's become a hammock.'' The gentleman is absolutely right.

What is Ohio estimating it is going to cost them just to run the Motor-Voter Act?

You know, I listened to the debate today. It sounded to me like some of the things coming from the other side that this bill, this unfunded-mandates bill, would repeal all of the legislation we passed, you know, since 1789. Is that the…

Elected Members are actually keeping the promises that they made to the people, and the impact that that has on confidence in our institution is really immeasurable. But it is wonderful to see in this kind of polling result that actually…

So not only are you not a Democrat like your father, but you are also telling him you want to have terms limits. Were you a Democrat in the North Carolina House?

Find out how much it costs, not to eliminate it, not to repeal it, but to find out what it really costs, because certainly there are some programs that cost much more than they are worth, but we will never know that if we do not have a…

I think one of the most remarkable things about this Contract With America is that it has created a road map for us that even we did not realize it was going to be so important to us in terms of keeping us focused on exactly what the…

I want to point out first of all that today we took a very important step on the road to recovering the confidence of the American people that began with the election last November. That is because what we did today is we passed a bill…

Well, as my colleague knows, the thing the people want, they never want to agree there are any correlations here, that they are causal things going on, but the fact is today two-thirds of all minority births are illegitimate. Twenty-five…

Well, does the gentleman think that it has to do with the pendulum swing? If the pendulum has swung so far over to favoring criminals, favoring thugs, favoring those people that are abusing our society, that are abusing other people, and…

I thought the comity at the end of debate today and especially the kind words for the chairman by the gentlewoman from California, they were both well taken and they went an awfully long way toward building an even better spirit of…

how silly we must look to the people beyond the beltway. They sent us here to govern and to make changes, but what do we do? We bicker, we quarrel, we argue. And over what? The things that the American people really want? No. We argue over…

In the beginning there was limited government and a sound economy and abundance covered the face of the land. Then Johnson, leader of the Spendites, looketh into the Treasury and saw there was a surplus, and he was sore afraid. So he…

I say to my colleagues, ``Don't get excited, everyone. I don't want to cause any parliamentary problems here today, and I certainly don't intend to impugn anyone's motives or integrity, but after listening to the President's speech last…

I think it is a great curiosity that the previous speaker, who presided over this body as the majority leader in the 103d Congress, knows full well that during that Congress we were under the 5-minute rule many, many, many times, and…

we are here doing the people's business on a regular basis, and what we have just heard is a great hypocrisy coming from the other side of the aisle. The fact that I, in the 103d Congress, which is the only Congress I have had the…

I want to speak this morning about the balanced budget amendment that we are going to begin consideration of either later today or tomorrow. This body is going to consider a bill which has two very, very important features in it. The one…

the idea that the budget should be balanced is not new; although judging from the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands that we have heard from the other side of the aisle it is downright revolutionary; but in fact it is an idea that is…

we are getting to the point in the balanced budget debate where the volume is being turned up, the heat is being turned up, we are starting to hear a lot of gnashing of teeth and beating of chests and wailing and wringing of hands, and I…

there are some strange new creatures roaming the Halls of Congress these days. I am going to call them Metoobuts because of the peculiar sound they make. We just heard one. Let me tell you how to spot a Metoobut. Their habitat is on the…

when our forefathers met in Philadelphia in 1787, their goal was to write a Constitution based on limited government that provided for the current and future needs of our country. But beginning with several Supreme Court decisions in the…

Today we are going to accomplish a great thing for the American people. We are going to stop using phony numbers in the Federal budget process. We are going to require that the Congressional Budget Office makes its financial projections…

Mr. Speaker, it is hard not to be somewhat amused by the shenanigans that are going on on the floor right now when we are being told that we are completely shackling the rights of the minority by not allowing them to have the central…