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Steve Chabot is a Republican politician from Ohio who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His first term began in 1995 and he served until 2001, returning to Congress in 2003 and remaining until 2021. During his time in office, Chabot was known for his focus on fiscal responsibility and social security issues, often advocating for budgetary restraint and the importance of maintaining a balanced federal budget. He has been a vocal supporter of conservative economic policies and has emphasized the need to control government spending.
Most Americans tend to put off their tax filing because it is such an unpleasant task. Do my colleagues realize that Tax Freedom Day this year is May 9, which means that everything they earn until May 9 goes to Washington and only after…
Every Member of the House now recognizes what members of the Committee on the Judiciary have come to realize over the last few months: This is likely the most important vote that we as Members of Congress will ever cast
But, Mr. Speaker, the excuses coming out of the White House about all their fund-raising irregularities would make even Steve Martin laugh. Maybe the White House needs to be reminded that accepting contributions from foreign nationals…
Well, the liberals in this place have finally done it. After 40 years of building the welfare state, the liberals have finally come up with the ultimate welfare policy. They have discovered a way to try to turn a tax cut into a welfare…
As James McDougal, former business partner of President Clinton, begins his prison sentence today, I think we should take a look back at some of the additions to the American vocabulary in just the last few years: Whitewater, Filegate…
We cast hundreds of votes in this body every year. Very rarely do we vote on an issue as important as this one. I hope that my colleagues will do the right thing today and overwhelmingly vote to override the President's veto of the…
What we attempted to do in essence was to make it tougher, make it harder for the Government to raise income taxes on the American people. Right now we can do it with a simple majority of Congress, taxes can be raised on the American…
The average American family now spends about 40 percent, 40 percent of what it earns in the form of taxes. Another way to look at that 40 percent figure is that if you work Monday through Friday, you are working Monday and Tuesday for the…
Yes, we also have to start paying it off. So we have to spend not only no more than we bring in. We have got to spend less than we bring in for a period of time to get rid of that debt. The debt is so large now, it is mind-boggling…
And the thing that again I heard over and over again is that people did want to help those who truly needed help. But they felt it ought to be temporary; it should not be a permanent way of life. Unfortunately, far too often that is what…
I believe there should be, and we have gone through and really established a criteria. The only bill that I personally would support is one, for example, that continues to allow seniors to have the choice to choose their own doctors, to…
Mr. Chairman, I would agree with the gentleman that many of these programs do matter. My argument is very simple. Despite the fact they matter, they should be paid for with private dollars, basically through philanthropy, not through…
Because they see a check comes from the Government every month and just assume that is the way people get by, the Government sends a check every month, and it just doesn't work that way. And you know, the thing that is unfair also is where…
And I think that the people that are ultimately the victims of this welfare trap is those children.
Like the gentleman says, that is only the interest. The scary part about this whole thing of debt and how large it has gotten, that interest on the debt within a couple of years, we are going to be paying more just on the interest on that…
That is right. I think again, something that the gentleman touched on that is important, is that we are working for all Americans, whether they be poor, whether they be middle class, whether they be better off, and I think what we have to…
I think those are excellent, excellent points, Walter. And something in particular that you said about Medicare and the fact that the liberal Democrats up here in the Congress have been scaring senior citizens about alleged cuts that are…
Yesterday, Republicans produced a historic plan to bring us to a balanced budget by the year 2002. The liberal Democrats here in Congress have already jumped on the whining, moaning, and groaning bandwagon to denounce our plan in every way…
What a difference this Republican majority has made. I think it is real simple. We did what we said we were going to do. It was promises made and promises kept. The American people like what they saw in the first 100 days, and the…
The gentleman very articulately spelled out the reasons why this amendment is important. To use another example, in my community, the city of Cincinnati, when the city police officers make arrests, the criminals are basically then turned…
One point--and many points have been made on both sides--one point that has not been made is that every State has a Governor and the Governors have the final ability to commute a sentence. So if, in fact, one is arguing that at some point…
Reclaiming my time, let us also be clear as to what has happened. A jury of one's peers has already convicted this person beyond reasonable doubt.
I rise in support of the Barton amendment which I believe will best protect the American taxpayer. Since this House last voted on a balanced budget amendment, just 10 months ago, before I got here, I might add, the national debt has…
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