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it is a privilege to rise in support of this legislation, the presence of which on the floor is a great tribute to the gentlewoman who chairs our subcommittee and the ranking member and their bipartisan effort to help kids. I am delighted…
Mr. Speaker, it is a fundamental principle that Social Security benefits should be tax free and today, with this legislation, we make essential progress toward restoring that principle. Seniors should not have to shoulder a…
I rise to salute the chairman and members of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade and to rise in strong support of H.R. 4868, the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act. This is good legislation which represents an important…
This legislation is truly landmark legislation. I have listened to some of the criticisms from the other side of the legislation and I have been pleased to see the bipartisan character of its support. Every one of the objections that have…
Today, Mr. Speaker, we will vote on landmark legislation that will provide our communities with the tools they need to revitalize our cities and many of our depressed rural areas. This is the day we will provide communities the tools they…
I would like to join the individuals who have spoken today in congratulating the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) for his Herculean efforts on behalf of this legislation. Mr. Speaker, working families must be able to fall back on strong…
Mr. Chairman, as I heard this debate, I felt the need to come down to the floor and participate because I think the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Miller) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller), which…
if we can set aside for a moment the hot bipartisan rhetoric, today the House has an opportunity to take a historic step to ensure that no senior will ever have to face the choice again between destitution and neglecting their…
the House is on the brink of considering a very important issue, one that matters to people in my district in northwestern Pennsylvania and to all users of the Medicare program throughout the United States, whether they are seniors or…
let me say I appreciate the remarks of the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Bryant). Judging from his remarks, he would concede that we have managed to build a bipartisan product based on a Republican budget that set aside $40 billion to…
Mr. Speaker, recently I had the opportunity in visiting Egypt for the first time to do something that every archeology buff wants to do, and that is visit the pyramids. As I descended into the bowels of the great pyramid of Cheops, I…
I will enter quotations from Chinese human rights' activists at the appropriate place in the Congressional Record who all agree that the best way to open minds is through open markets. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I in Congress remain…
this debate that we undertake today is about better, stronger, fairer trade with China, which in time will pave the way for social and political reforms. Some of these reforms are already evident today. Pennsylvania has exported more than…
The American tax system looms like a Frankenstein's monster that terrorizes individual taxpayers while casting a cold shadow over the productive sectors of the U.S. economy. It is too complicated and riddled with obvious inequities, it…
I have been very concerned, Mr. Speaker, about our trade balance in this country. I have been very concerned about the competitiveness of American jobs. I have been very involved in working with the steel industry to address the problem of…
Right now the Social Security system places a higher tax penalty on working seniors than on billionaires. We have been sending seniors the message that when they hit retirement age, we do not want them anymore. The earnings limit that was…
for many of us who came to Congress in 1994, elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility and reform, it is a source of wonder and considerable pride that America now has something that a generation of national leaders had only dreamt…
the headlines are very grim today. We are facing in America a record trade deficit, one that threatens to cut the economic growth rate of this country. This is in the context of an international economic malaise in which unfair trade…
I rise today to applaud the House leadership's decision to bring this bill to the full House of Representatives. I believe that the crisis facing the U.S. steel industry and the lack of an effective response by the Clinton-Gore…
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