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…

the buck on Filegate does not stop with White House political hack Craig Livingstone, who is now being paid not to work. As William Safire has pointed out, the problem extends to a White House counsel's office bent on stonewalling. But the…

why are taxpayers paying Craig Livingstone not to work? He is the guy who was involved in pawing through the private FBI background files on political opponents of President Clinton. Even the director of the FBI, a Clinton appointee, has…

when the privacy rights of American citizens are in jeopardy, partisan politics has no place. That is why I stood up to Members of my own party in fighting against giving the FBI more leeway to conduct warrantless wiretaps. I have opposed…

the White House has now released statements from some of the political operatives involved in pawing through the confidential FBI background files of hundreds of political opponents. Those declarations are more important for what they do…

Yesterday we learned that among those former Reagan and Bush officials whose confidential FBI background files have been pawed through by the Clinton White House is a distinguished Cincinnatian, Mr. Joseph W. Hagin. The search of Mr…

Today, once again, we will try to take the President at his word on welfare reform. Only 3 weeks ago President Clinton endorsed the Wisconsin works plan which substitutes work and responsibility for dependence and despair. It was adopted…