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in the Democratic budget resolution, let me remind the gentleman, we incur a lower deficit than their resolution. Every year for 10 years, we incur $1.2 trillion less debt than the President's resolution, and we merely bring spending back…
I rise to urge support amongst all Members, both sides of the aisle, for this motion to instruct conferees. What does this motion do? It simply directs the conferees, who will be appointed today, to accept the pay-as-you-go provisions…
here are the facts. In the year 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration, our budget was in surplus by $236 billion. Members can see it right there. Our deficit reduction efforts went from a deficit of $290 billion in 1992 to a…
we have come up with a budget which takes these difficult facts and, number one, tries to set a target date for bringing the budget to balance. We do that in 2012. Secondly, we have tried to bring the deficit in at lower and lower rates…
The only bracket we refer to is the bracket that would include those making over, earning, having incomes over $500,000 a year, which is our definition of a wealthy person. So we are saying do not take all the benefits away from those…
I think he would readily agree, having served in the Army, that morale is an important operational necessity. What we are trying to provide for in our resolution is, we have $422.7 billion next year for national defense, plus a huge…
this budget resolution which I am now offering as an alternative provides $6 billion more for homeland security than the Republican resolution, the committee resolution; it provides $5 billion more for law enforcement programs under the…
It is significant and Members should understand that we have made special provision in our budget resolution to see to it that the contracting officers of the full military services have the budget authority backup needed to continue the…
Mr. Chairman, let me address the last remark made by my good friend, the Majority Leader, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), by saying that the budget resolution we will bring to the floor as a substitute for the House Republican…
I yield myself 3 minutes before yielding to others to talk about debt and Social Security because the two, believe it or not, are critically linked. Every year when the President sends us his budget, the Congressional Budget Office does an…
Mr. Chairman, let me put a few things about this debate in perspective. There has been a lot of talk on the floor today about tax increases, tax cuts and spending increases. Let me try to put the tax cuts, in particular, in perspective. In…
I think it should be obvious to almost any citizen, every fair-minded person, that a budget accumulating a deficit of $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next 10 years, and possibly more, plotted by this line right here, is a budget that…
If the $521 billion were not reduced or diminished by the offset of the Social Security surplus, which is about $160 billion, it would instead be $681 billion, instead of $521 billion. In truth, he was here when we voted to do it. We have…
The PAYGO rule was adopted for 5 years, renewed again for 5 years in 1997, and expired in 2002, and has not been renewed. But for the PAYGO rule, the tax cuts that were passed in the early 2000 period by the Bush administration could not…
We have said that the projected surplus in the year 2001 when the President came to office was an unprecedented $5.6 trillion. Under the President's fiscal policies and under the situation of the times, not all of his making, that surplus…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in proud support of H.R. 3287, which honors four South Carolina heroes. Because of the courage of Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry Briggs, Eliza Briggs and Levi Pearson, South Carolinians live in a better State; but more…
I support this bill, and I am glad to see us put some quality-of-life provisions in it; and I commend the chairman, whom I have worked with for 20-odd years, for once again bringing a bill to closure. I do have to call attention to the…
I rise to pay tribute to an old friend and dear colleague. Frank McCloskey and I came to Congress together in 1983, and for all the time that he served here, we sat beside each other on the Committee on Armed Services. I enjoyed him as a…
last week, the Commerce Department released the growth rate for the third quarter. It was good news, welcome news, the kind of news we can all cheer. According to the Commerce Department, the economy grew at a rate of 7.2 percent in the…
I rise to vigorously support the quality-of-life provisions, the very modest quality-of-life provisions, but important provisions that my good friend, the gentleman from Wisconsin, has included in this bill. I would say that we have worked…
I would say to the chairman, who I have great respect for, this bill should have gone, the $87 billion bill has enough policy in it, enough money in it that it should have gone through the typical two-step process. The authorizing…
I will take a minute or two, if I could. As I was saying, General Keane came before our committee and said that he had been to Walter Reed and he met there a young soldier who had lost his eyesight and lost a limb, badly injured. You may…
This amendment actually consists of a number of different provisions, all designed to enhance the quality of life of our troops, the men and women in the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. I do not believe that these brave Americans…
Mr. Speaker, South Carolina is an unenviable host to one of the largest concentrations of military-generated radioactive waste in our country, if not in the world. There are over 37 million gallons of highly-radioactive waste stored in 49…
I offer this motion simply to ask the House to stand by a bipartisan compromise that we struck last May in marking up the defense authorization bill, the bill we are now sending formally to conference which deals with the development of…
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