5 short years. That is the amount of time that is remaining in the Medicare trust fund before it goes completely bankrupt. The trust fund already has started to lose billions, and unless we make some needed changes, Medicare will be…

here is a quote from Tuesday's Washington Times editorial on welfare reform: Knowing the salience that welfare reform has with the electorate, the President desperately wants to be seen as leading the reform effort that he has actually…

this Congress has twice passed welfare reform legislation that emphasizes work and personal responsibility. President Clinton, who told America that he would ``end welfare as we know it,'' has, on both occasions, vetoed that legislation…

the President is talking tough on welfare reform again. Remember, this is the President, who as a candidate, promised to ``end welfare as we know it.'' But when this Congress presented him with legislation that truly would end welfare as…

every now and then, I like to thumb through my copy of ``Putting People First'' then-candidate Bill Clinton's book of promises to the American people. And I couldn't help but notice when I last picked it up that the centerpiece of the…

earlier this week President Clinton finally admitted what most of us have known for quite some time now: Congress is not cutting Medicare. In fact, our effort has been to save Medicare from bankruptcy. When reporters asked the President…

Finally, Mr. Speaker, finally. Today finally is the day that the average American can stop working for the Government and finally start working for his or her family. For the average working American, every dime from every working hour of…

when I go back to Cincinnati every weekend, I get a chance to talk to a lot of working folks. It's amazing how many of them ask me this question: ``Whatever happened to that middle-class tax cut my family was supposed to get this year…

I once again return to the point I have been making since I got here, and that is that working families in this country are taxed far, far too much. Working families are being ripped off by the Federal Government and by the special…

this is the week that we are reminded by the April 15 filing deadline just how oppressive the Federal tax burden is in this country. But Tax Freedom Day, the day on which the average working person gets to stop working for the Government…

Yesterday millions and millions of Americans paid their taxes all across this country. Unfortunately, most of them found that the Government was taking more and more of their hard-earned dollars, and they were keeping less and less to…

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…

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…

I think you cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip or only so much is right on the mark. That has been one of the problems with the government, particularly the Federal Government, is they thought there was just an unlimited ability to…

it is April 15, tax day. Today is the day that millions of Americans, as they struggle to file their tax forms all across this country on time, are reminded just how much they are being fleeced by the Federal Government. Every time taxes…

Today we will again vote on whether or not it should be lawful for an abortionist to kill a baby that already has been partially delivered in circumstances where the mother's life is not at risk. Remember, the doctor must grasp two…

If a citizen is not approved to work, and that is really what this is all about here, is what the committee report says happens. And I would like to read from the committee's own report. If he or she wishes to contest this finding…

Mr. Chairman, what was designed as a coercive mandatory and permanent program now is being sold as voluntary and temporary. The principal argument in its favor apparently is it is not as bad as it could be. Well, we all know that…

50 days ago President Clinton stood before the American people right here behind me in this Chamber and said, ``The era of big government is over.'' I am here to announce that, unfortunately, rumors of the demise of big government were…

I am a former schoolteacher. I taught the seventh and eighth grades in an inner city school in Cincinnati. There is perhaps no greater argument for education reform than the school system right here in Washington, DC. The numbers and the…

Mr. Chairman, the cotton program, as well as many of the other commodity programs, were originally devised during the Depression. These things were supposed to be temporary, as many of the things which came into law during the Depression…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment, which I am pleased to offer along with my friend from Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy, will significantly reform taxpayer subsidies to cotton growers. As you know, the Cotton Program is the epitome of corporate…

the existing welfare system is a mess. It hurts the very people that it is supposed to help. In 1992, President Clinton campaigned on a pledge to end welfare as we know it. Remember that? Now, after 3 years of the Clinton Presidency, he…

I rise this morning in defense of the middle-class tax cuts that the middle class gets. They keep getting promised these tax cuts, but they never seem to get them. It is a fact that hard-working people in this country are overtaxed. The…

the President said a lot of the right things last night. He says the era of big government is over. He says that he now understands that working families are overtaxed. And he even implies that he is now willing to sign the welfare reform…