John Spratt

This bill, compared to the Senate bill, taxes could be raised on enlisted men and women serving in Iraq by as much as $1,000 per child. It is a fact, a shocking fact about this bill. Let us take an E6, a sergeant, making $29,000. You have…

let me explain to the House how under this Republican bill that we have just passed, compared to the Senate bill, taxes can be raised or child tax credits can be denied to many of our service men and women serving in places like Iraq and…

we are here tonight to honor Al Davis, a dear friend, who died in the prime of life in a tragic, wholly unnecessary accident. But in his 56 years, he made a huge, if unheralded, contribution to the government of this country. We have lost…

The Council on Economic Advisors put on their Web page their estimate of what the President's proposal would do and the methodology they were using. They had a model developed by macroeconomic advisers who were retained by them to give…

we said we wanted to go to everybody who filed a return in the year 2002 and who earned up to $6,000 in income and give them 10 percent of what they had earned, up to a ceiling of $600, and send them a check for it right away. That way we…

Exactly. That is the complete and full point, namely, that we have got an economy with deficient demand. It is lagging. It is mired in a jobless recovery. And to get it up on its feet and running, you have got to put money in people's…

The gentleman made a very significant point a minute ago, namely, in 2001, we stood at the fork of the road. Prior to Mr. Bush coming to office, we were on the cusp of adopting a very conservative economic policy which would have called…

How is the tax cut funded? It was not funded at all. It simply goes straight to the bottom line. Something very significant happened this year. This year when the Office of Management and Budget sent us the President's budget, they sent…

Of course they pay a sales tax. They pay property taxes on the homes they own, on the cars they drive, all of these taxes they pay; and we are trying to give them some tax relief, because let us face it, they need it more than anybody else.

In 1990, when the first President Bush was in office, we prevailed upon him to sit down and negotiate with us a 5-year budget, a so-called budget summit deficit reduction plan. The negotiations went on for 4, 5, 6 months at Andrews Air…

Of course they do pay a payroll tax on their gross earnings, not on net earnings, on gross earnings up to a ceiling of about $86,000. And for the lower- and moderate-income people, that payroll tax which essentially is about 16 percent…

For every year that we forecast, all 10 years to get to the right-hand edge of the paper, cannot see anymore, we will fully expend the Social Security surplus, fully draw it down and spend it for non-Social Security purposes.

there have actually been job losses in the private sector, gains in the public sector, but the net job loss is somewhere around 2.2, 2.3 million people. The private sector job loss number is 3.1 million jobs since the peak of this…

Basically what we have said tonight is we are not opposed to a tax cut. We have proposed them before. We will propose them again. We recognize they can stimulate the economy if they are directed in the right manner. But we are deeply…

That is our concern. That is what we are talking about tonight, the future as it looms ahead of us. And each time we pass one of these mammoth tax bills, we take another step down this road and it becomes all the more irreversible for us…

The Clinton administration, which inherited an economy just coming out of a recession and had to deal with the credit crunch and other problems that were dragging the economy then, nevertheless generated more than 10 million jobs during…

Rule number two has arrived; and just to show you how much bipartisanship there is, my amendment which deals with an important project, cooperative threat reduction, destroying weapons of mass destruction in Russia, the former Soviet…

when the President sent his budget up this year, OMB sent with it a message in which they said that the surplus of $5.6 trillion, which they projected just 2 years ago, was a mistake; that now, from 2002 through 2011, they revised downward…

I have to wonder if our good friend from New York, when he tells his constituents about their benefits, will tell them that the child tax credit will expire in 2004, that the 10 percent bracket expansion will expire in 2004, that the AMT…

the rule did not make in order an amendment that I sought with respect to cooperative threat reduction, but it does make in order an amendment offered by my good friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), and I am here to offer…

there were 99 amendments filed to the defense authorization bill. Nine were made in order: six for Republicans, three for Democrats. Among those not made in order was an amendment that I offered along with the gentleman from California…

first of all, let us be clear, this is not a $550 billion tax cut. Take out the phony sunsets, the false expiration dates, and it is easily over a trillion dollars. By our calculation, the total impact of this tax package, of these tax…

when I was last up here on the rule, we had this chart here which shows what happens, the damage done to the deficit, to the bottom line. It is $426 billion this year, $494 billion, totalling $4 trillion over 10 years. I ask the question…

as my colleagues can surmise, we are here tonight because my Republican colleagues have put another round of tax cuts on a fast track. In fact, by next week, early next week there may be what we call a markup of a bill we have yet to see…

The gentleman will search the budget the President sent us in vain for any such direction or inclination. There is no plan and no process for ridding ourselves of these perpetual deficits. Back out Social Security, as I think we must, and…