Jon Fox

If I can ask you, Mr. Tauzin, beyond the discussion we had on flat tax, with or without deductions for mortgage, the Armey and Specter versions, as well as the Forbes version, and the consumption tax and national sales tax, what other…

I think the people driving it frankly are the people back home. They are saying they want a simpler, fairer, flatter tax. They also say they want the IRS to be changed. Some want to eliminate it, to be sure. But the Taxpayer Bill of Rights…

One of the other areas we are working on for seniors...because we want to make sure our seniors and others are living longer and living better.

The work that has been done so far by the gentleman from Texas, Joe Barton, the gentleman from Wisconsin, Scott Klug, and, as well, the work of the gentleman from North Carolina, Richard Burr, they have been appointed along with the…

The average drug now might take 12 years and $350 million to come to market. Some people cannot wait 12 years to get that miracle life-extending drug, and $350 million is a lot of money for a company to invest without ever getting approval.

I speak of FDA reform, Food and Drug Administration reform. We know that many Americans are waiting for the approval of drugs or medical devices, because FDA has been so far mired down in overregulation and delay. I believe that it is a…

I will say, in summation, the spirit of voluntarism also is alive and well in Montgomery County, PA, where we have hundreds of organizations working to help with shelters for the homeless, food cupboards, you name it, health care. They are…

What is interesting is we can still balance the budget and still have the safety net for those who are in need. This is a compassionate country, and this Congress does care but it does not mean we need to spend money on every program…

The fact is that our local communities, local officials, schools, parents, teachers, they know best what they need in their community. If it goes through all the layers... there is $30 billion a year right now in fraud, abuse and waste…

I rise to support the Gilman resolution. The terrible devastation of Israel, with the fourth attack on the innocent Israeli victims, which has killed 61 people, injured 190 people, is certainly something this country, the United States…

Well, we passed a version early on in the 104th Congress, first session. The Senate passed a slightly different version. But I am hopeful that this bill will get to the President and a compromise version after the conferees have met…

What is interesting is the President and the First Lady a couple a years ago said the way to solve the Medicare crisis is to make sure we control the rate of growth, and that is exactly what the majority proposal was and is, so hopefully…

You know when we talk about the environment; you know Earth Day is coming up in April; it occurs to me that for us to continue the environmental movement started some years ago and to carry on the issues that Major Carson, an environmental…

I am sure your colleagues would want to have updates on a regular basis of what is happening with the Everglades, and it will be important to the body.

I want to change gears if I could to go back to something I heard you speak about on the House floor recently, and I helped vote and work for the bill that you introduced to save the Everglades. While the Everglades are not in my part of…

I think that will come with our legislation to have sunset review and also working with Congressman Mica in regulatory review, because many times I have seen where we have had Federal regulations introduced, there are already State…

The advantage, according to Alan Greenspan with the Federal Reserve, is by having reduced interest costs it will be easier to afford a mortgage, easier to pay for a college loan, easier to pay for a car expense. Those kinds of things are…

I would say this, the fact is in this Congress we have already come forward with not only tax reform but spending reductions and deficit reductions, which gives the change to have help for working families, for seniors and for our children.

What has happened in this Congress which I think is also significant is the fact we talked about rolling back the 1993 Social Security tax on our seniors and allowing seniors to earn more. They were capped at $11,200. By our legislation…

That is what gives me hope that we are going to come to a settlement here. We are going to get a balanced budget. We are going to make sure programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the environment, children's programs, education, will, in fact…

I think the proposal has a lot of merit. It also called for elder care tax cut, two new IRA's for individuals and couples, and I think, frankly, with the infusion of the capital gains tax reduction for individuals and businesses, what we…

It does not. Further, what made the middle-class tax reform such a viable proposal, which had bipartisan support in the House and the Senate, is that it also had some other significant items that helped other individuals across the board…

And as well allowing the seniors to earn more than $11,280 a year without having a bite out of social security, both.

What is interesting, if the gentleman would yield, is that fact that we can balance the budget, making sure we provide vital services to our constituents while still maintaining increases for Medicare, increases for Medicaid, increases for…

The fact is we need your enthusiasm and optimism. I would say to the gentleman from Minnesota, the gentleman from New Jersey, and the gentleman from Washington, we appreciate your leadership on the Committee on Government Reform and…