Tom Coburn

The question I have is one or two, really. No. 1, the gentleman desires to be part of the boundary area around this biosphere reserve program, and the gentleman did of course check with everybody else that was going to be involved in that?

But the Senate can originate no spending, and therefore the House has to originate spending, and to do that it has to have authorized programs under which to do that, and I would just like a reference to where the authority comes for the…

First of all, there have been no statements from me in putting forth this amendment that I objected to the World Heritage Reserve Program. Never said; no, I have never said that. No, the point is, and authorizing language that the…

I will be happy to allow the other gentleman from Oklahoma to answer that, but I will tell the gentleman from Washington that presently those very things that he is describing are ongoing without interference from the BIA or the Secretary…

There are 4 million people today who are receiving Federal income money who earn no money. It is called the earned income tax credit. It is 36 percent of the claims for that are fraud. It is the most abused system that we have. It is not…

This is simply an amendment to clarify what our process is. The World Heritage and Man and Biosphere program has never been authorized by this Congress. It has never been presented to any committee of this Congress. A quarter of a million…

The purpose of this colloquy is to discuss the grant program under the provisions of H.R. 3, and to ask the chairman as to his consideration for the youth challenge programs as presently run by the National Guard. There are 15 of them, and…

I believe it was a mistake in language, but I would like to ask the gentleman a question. This program has never been authorized by any Congress of the United States; is that the gentleman's understanding?

It is a matter of making judgments as to what our priorities are and how do we best benefit ourself, and once we assume and know we can balance the budget, that is the hard work of Congress, and as it should be. I want to thank you for…

And the American public will know what the true size is of the deficit that their Representatives are voting for each year, which in fact is significantly higher than what is reported in the press and by the Congressional Budget Office and…

So in essence none of the money that is supposed to be set aside for Social Security trust fund purposes nor the interest actually has ever been paid, and we continue to send a piece of paper to cover the interest and the additional moneys…

As a matter of fact, we can do it putting that money into investments that will enhance the Social Security; is that not true?

So let me ask the gentleman a question, if I might. Is it possible to balance our budget and pay off the debt; and can we do that and meet the obligations that we have made to the people in this country that depend on us?

I think we should. One thing I want to address is this bogeyman everybody talks about called the Consumer Price Index, or the CPI. Because, in fact, when we ask politicians and we ask Members of the House of Representatives how many of…

I think the point is there is not ever a case, never a case where this procedure is needed to protect the life of a woman.

I want to thank the people in my district who work for the Social Security Administration who brought this to light, some very brave people who bucked the system, who bucked the union to say that seniors' money, Social Security trust fund…

I would just tell my colleagues, as a freshman Member of this House, that we do not do anything positive for our country, for our future generations, or for ourselves by vicious personal attacks. To name someone a dictator is both…

Reclaiming my time, I was not referring to a vaccine at all. There is very substantive research in front of us today that says that we will be able to prolong significantly the occurrence from HIV to AIDS infection with some of the very…

HIV-AIDS, except in very rare circumstances today, is an absolutely preventable disease. Absolutely preventable. As long as we fail to recognize that, as long as we ignore that, we will never solve this epidemic, no matter how much money…

I have talked to hundreds of military doctors, and the fact is they do not care to perform abortions, they do not want to perform abortions. This is the practice today, that we do not do this in military hospitals. Military physicians do…

The other thing that we ought to pay attention to is, this is the beginning. It is not just going to be on environmental laws. It is going to be on every other law that this Congress has passed that the World Trade Organization is going to…

Mr. Chairman, I think one of the most important points is to recognize that this technology is available today, it is being encouraged. But here is the technology that is not going to be available if in fact we have the Markey V-chip. We…

In our amendment we restored the $52.5 million that goes for actual education, we eliminate the bureaucracy associated with the Indian education department, but maintain the funds to the school districts where the actual Indian education…

There should be written consent, but we have already seen that the Department of Health and Human Services has already asked questions similar to this in one of their own surveys. So all we are saying with the Souder amendment is that they…

I have a great deal of difficulty in my own experience in surveys similar to this in this very delicate area of teenage sexuality in ascertaining whether or not we have parents' consent without written parents' consent. Because in my…