this week marks the 30th birthday of Medicare, very important health care program for our senior citizens, and this week is very important, that we look to Medicare and see how we can strengthen, preserve, and protect Medicare. We have…

I rise today to work with my colleagues to try to make those adjustments to our budget which are reasonable and fair to all citizens. In my own county and across Pennsylvania and for that matter the United States, we need to make those…

I do, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this amendment, as amended, in fact does add $50 million under technical and financial assistance to the State energy conservation programs which are so vital to each of our States, and it takes the $50…

The fact is that the bipartisan task force studying Medicare has come up with the fact that, in fact, we will be out of money in 7 years. Most of the Clinton appointees, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and others, have clearly…

We are the ones who in this session have already met and worked with seniors to make sure that we help them earn beyond $11,028 a year, to make sure that in the next 5 years if they earn $30,000 without deducting for Social Security, and…

The gentleman from Florida [Mr. Foley] has been a leader on another reform, and I would like him to join our colloquy, if he would, on the idea of having a lockbox to make sure when we have savings achieved they actually go to deficit…

This week just suddenly a tragic death, Sister Judith Cleary of the St. Joseph Order in Philadelphia who suddenly died. She was someone who was 50 years old, did many accomplishments in her lifetime, many more than those who may live twice…

Do not you think these kinds of reforms that Congressman Gutknecht is talking about, and the ones you are talking about, are going to restore the confidence of the public in the institution so that more people will want to run? We will…

We do want to see the continuation, I believe, of what Congressman Gutknecht has been working on; that is, the regulatory reform. Many of the businesses and individuals in this country have been stifled in their individual effort to try to…

One of the other items we are embracing, I think, is the idea of Corrections Day, whether it is the gentleman from Florida, yourself, the gentlewoman from Washington, the gentleman from Minnesota, we are trying to make sure we get through…

I had a situation in my district in Montgomery County, PA, where we had a gentleman who was trying to work with the Federal Government, a $25,000 contract. The problem he had was 187 pages of Federal documents to be filled out. The problem…

I think the support that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] has given as well as the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston] for our products liability reform legislation will go a long way in helping businesses. As the gentleman…

life-saving new drugs do take too long to reach the people who need them. From my district in Montgomery County, PA, I have heard many a compelling story from constituents with cancer, A.L.S., Lou Gehrig's disease, epilepsy, or AIDS, who…

as was aptly described by Carl B. Feldbaum, president of the BioTech Industry Organization, ``Life-saving new drugs do take too long to reach the people who need them.'' From my district in Montgomery County, PA, I have heard many a…

I rise tonight to give a brief review of how this Congress is fighting for our senior citizens across the country. First, we rolled back the Social Security tax increase of 1993. Second, we have raised the income eligibility level above…

according to the President's Commission on Entitlements, in about a decade all Federal revenues will be consumed by entitlements and interest on the debt. At that point, the Federal Government will cease to exist as we know it: no defense…

the Clinton administration's Trustees Report on Medicare warns that the Medicare trust fund starts to go broke in 1996 and is bankrupt by 2002. House Republicans are determined to save Medicare by using new approaches, new management, and…

I believe, Mr. Speaker, that a flat tax is in America's future. It is an idea which is catching fire across the Nation. What is it about the flat tax that Americans find so attractive? I believe the answer can be summarized in three words…

On April 19 a tragedy occurred which rocked the Nation. For the second time in recent years, terrorists struck a target in the United States and, at the same time, dealt a blow to our national sense of security. As everyone now knows, a…

you can see now after 12 weeks that this bipartisan House, under Republican leadership, has passed 9 out of 10 items in the Contract With America. First the balanced budget amendment which only awaits one vote in the Senate. Stop violent…

there are three parts of the Contract With America that are very important to the American people. Already passed, $180 billion for deficit reduction, $190 billion for spending cuts, and now we have tax cuts for individuals, families…

I thank Mr. Smith for his participation in this meaningful dialogue. The American people are waiting for what we will do to not only continue our fight to have the reduction in our deficit, a spending cuts reduction but also the third part…

I rise in support of H.R. 1271. This legislation strengthens the family and has received bipartisan support by this Congress. I am concerned about protecting the rights of parents in knowing about the activities in which their children are…

You know, looking at what the American people want, Mr. Speaker, they want three things. They want to see tax cuts, spending cuts, and deficits reduction, and under the Contract With America we can achieve all three. We have already…

I rise just to say finally this amendment will, in fact, give everyone the chance to put the money into deficit reduction that all of our families want and all of our children want. That is certainly an amendment I would ask for a…