I think it was good legislation, we are working on it now, but it affected poor people. There is one type of welfare that we have hardly touched in that Congress or this Congress and that is something called corporate welfare. Now…

the liberals are simply unwilling to give the middle class a break. They are playing the class warfare card again. They seem to do it all the time; it is happening again. Thanks to the wonders of something called the family economic…

while the Congress is working over the next couple of weeks to provide tax cuts for working American families, President Clinton is doing just the opposite. His endorsement recently of a radical EPA proposal, new, unproven air standards…

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…

I think we all know when a big government liberal gets his hands on your money, he is going to be very reluctant to give it back. Today we are hearing from a lot of our liberal friends on the other side of the aisle who are facing that…

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…

Yesterday President Clinton sent a callous message to the flood-ravaged American families in the Midwest. Only minutes after receiving the disaster relief bill from Capitol Hill, the President who likes to say that he feels our pain told…

let us face it, the American people are just overtaxed. Why? Well, too much of their hard-earned money comes here to Washington and it gets wasted in many, many ways. Examples. We have a program called the Market Access Program, where we…

why is it so important to balance the budget? I get that question quite a bit when I speak to school groups back in my district. Well, it is a fair question. After all, the economy has been doing OK lately and we have not had a balanced…

this week we are honoring this Nation's teachers, those hardworking men and women who under increasingly difficult circumstances train and mold young minds. The work teachers do today will influence those young Americans every day of their…

National Teacher Appreciation Week gives us an opportunity to recognize the hard work and dedication of teachers across the country. Teachers every day inspire young students and help prepare our children for the next century. One…

Question: How many Federal directors does it take to run the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center? Answer: Nine. Now, if this sounds like a bad joke, it is, and once again the joke is on the American taxpayer, because this sheep…

it is a sad fact that simply to mention today's date is to utter a phrase that most Americans find repugnant: April 15, tax day. The words just sort of lie there, cold and hard and ugly. We take a perfectly good month like April and we…

the character of the Clinton administration was on display for the entire world to see when Vice President Gore recently clinked champagne glasses with Li Peng, the mastermind of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Fortunately, the tough and…

Partial-birth abortions should not be a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans who share a fundamental belief that life is precious are in agreement: The partial-birth abortion procedure is gruesome, it is hideous, and it is…

Mexico's President Ernesto Zedillo made some very troubling comments last week following the House vote to decertify his country for its miserable performance in the war against drugs. President Zedillo said, ``This is where we draw the…

whenever natural disaster strikes, America gets a few new heroes, selfless individuals who come to the aid of their neighbors in need. Earlier this month Cincinnati, my community, was one of those river communities in the Midwest that felt…

a lot of the backroom deals in this town involve taking money away from middle-class people who work for it and then giving it to special interests who lobby for it. One of the most outrageous transfer programs around now is called the…

a time-honored tradition in this body is now under attack. I am speaking of that period, this time right now, set aside each day for one-minute speeches. It has been a long practice for Members to come to the well of the Chamber each…

the bipartisan practice of beginning each legislative day with a series of 1-minute topical speeches is under attack. There is an effort in some quarters to muffle debate by pushing this segment back to the end of the day's proceedings. If…

President Clinton recently rolled out the red carpet for one of the most repugnant figures of our time, Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian, better known as the butcher of Tiananmen Square. General Chi ordered the slaughter of hundreds…

it has become popular to say that there are no significant philosophical differences in this town anymore. I do not buy it. Take, for one small example, an exchange that took place here in Washington just yesterday. One of our…

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…

in 1992, Bill Clinton portrayed himself as a new Democrat. One of the things that was supposed to set him apart from the old Democrats was the belief shared by many people of goodwill that the welfare system was a mess, that it was broken…

last week this House once again passed historic welfare reform legislation. Twice before we have passed welfare reform, but twice the President has blocked that reform with his veto pen, even though candidate Clinton said he wanted to end…