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…

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.

I wanted to add my comments on this. As we speak, the Republican conference is meeting for just that purpose, to try to get all the important Federal workers, all the Federal workers back to work, not only for the sake of their families…

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…

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…

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…

In Pennsylvania, they are very happy about the fact we are holding the line on wasteful spending. They want to make sure, however, the direct services that can be handled by the Federal Government should be handled by the Federal…

I think it is our job to make sure it is simplified along with the Federal agencies involved, would be Health and Human Services. The fact is that the gentleman from Arizona was talking about, and the gentleman from Michigan, is at least…

OK, the other point is this: On Medicare reform and things like that the people want to be involved in the dialog, and I think that is what is important, what I did this summer and what I think plenty of other Congressmen have done, and…

I think we absolutely are, thanks to your efforts and that of the gentleman from Michigan. I think the fact is the 104th Congress, fired up by 86 new freshmen, 73 Republican, 13 Democrat, I think it is pretty evident that we have an…

First, the line-item veto which is the President's way that we have given him, once the House and Senate versions are agreed upon, to line-item out pork barrel legislation, which will take out those programs which have been in prior…

Well, Congressman Kingston and Congressman Smith, also Congressman Hayworth, I think it is very important to understand. You pointed out the President had a proposal, and you have heard a Republican proposal, but there has been nothing…

That is for Medicare and Medicaid together. But there are different publications that have different articles about what Congress is working on. It is $30 billion in one article, anyhow, for Medicare reform, and it deals with the fraud…

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…

the fact is that this class of freshmen has been anti-tax, pro people and pro business. When I say pro business I mean pro jobs. I think if we keep that orientation, we will make some positive changes. When we speak of Medicare reform…

I rise in support of the Deficit Reduction Lock-box Act which is an idea whose time has arrived. The bipartisan support for this legislation is very well known. We are going to be able to hold the line on waste and return savings to reduce…

We have cut out 3 committees and 25 subcommittees. We released one-third of our committee staff, saving over $100 million just in the cost of running Congress. As well, we have a gift ban we are now going to move towards passage, lobbying…

Let me just add to what the gentleman from New Jersey just talked about. The fact is, there has been a big lie on campus about what is actually going to happen, and there is a student loan scare campaign by the other side of the aisle. But…

The fact is that this is a bipartisan issue. Americans want to make sure they have the quality drugs they need, while the FDA makes sure we have the quality standards and the purity. The fact is that this country, with its great…

This is the first year since 1969 that we have actually had a balanced budget here in Congress, and we did it without having, as you say, even though we passed the balanced budget amendment and it has not been passed in the Senate, we did…

as we move forward to the fiscal 1996 legislative branch legislation dealing with the budget, I think it is important to note, Mr. Speaker, that the conference report to the legislative branch appropriations bill, H.R. 1854, ends 40 years…

Frankly, the gentleman from Georgia has led the way here in Congress, I would say. What we are trying to do is take a page out of the American industries' book. If you are running a corporation, you want to make sure the bottom line is…