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Exactly. That simple rule worked better than any budget resolution, any budget rule we enacted during the 1980s and during the 1990s. I was here, involved in the process. I can stand witness to it. PAYGO worked. But don't take my word for…
I thank Mr. Skelton for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the mission in Iraq has been plagued from the start by poor intelligence, by poor planning for the post-war, and by disdain for the advice from our allies and even our officials. Ignoring the…
a few months ago this House passed a bill to get tough with illegal immigration. It stiffened sanctions, it increased penalties, and it promulgated a new get-tough approach to illegal immigration. It lacked, however, one essential, the…
I have great respect for the distinguished majority leader, but I have to take exception when he says if we hold the line on spending and let revenues continue, we will balance the budget in 5 years. The deficit this year without…
this budget already cuts, the base bill on the floor, education by $45 billion over the next 5 years; wipes out 42 programs; eliminates the Perkins plan for vocational education. Public health, the cuts come to $18 billion. That is the…
it is fair to ask, why are we resorting to this extraordinary procedure, where we override all the rules of the House, on a matter of this magnitude including a rule that requires that a bill of this kind, a budget resolution, lay…
The gentleman has 2 minutes remaining on his original allocation of time? The Acting CHAIRMAN. It has returned to the gentleman from South Carolina.
I yield the gentleman from Texas back his 2 remaining minutes. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Edwards) is now recognized for 2 minutes.
I would simply inform the lady that we voted for the full budget act that put the budget in balance in 1998 for the first time in 30 years and then again in the year 2000, put it in surplus by $236 billion. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2\1/2\…
the administration has devoted a lot of energy to touting the successes of the economy, particularly with respect to the job statistics, as justification for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. But let's look at the record. When President Clinton…
I am not even going to deign to respond to that. You got my responses so wrong, I don't know where to start. We provide exactly the same amount of money for defense. We just had that debate out here. You weren't on the floor. But I am…
I yield myself 2 minutes. I said earlier that this is an excellent opportunity to show the difference between Democrats and Republicans. This document does that; but with respect to national defense, function 050, there is no difference…
I will use those to say one thing that I haven't said, and that is, in reading this entire resolution which we offer, you will find four separate reserve funds for the improvement of health care. For example, we provide a reserve fund to…
the opening prayer was given by the Reverend Clyde Pickney Thomas, Jr. Reverend Thomas has served in the ministry of the Southern Baptist Church since 1974 and is now the pastor of Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church in Gaffney, South Carolina…
it is easy to criticize the contents of this reconciliation bill because it hurts children, single-parent families, students struggling to finance their college education, and many others who are the most vulnerable among us. But I rise…
it may be 5:15 in the morning, but that is not our fault. We would liked to have done this in the light of day with a little more time to look at this package. Here is what we have got just 1 hour ago. When we unpacked the package to see…
I have been on the conference committee every year for at least 20 years, and I never seen this happen before. I have never seen the leadership of either party come forth and say, you may have signed it, you may have closed it, you may…
As the gentleman knows, we get the budget the second week in February. Our hearings start almost immediately in the authorization committee because we have got all four services, we have procurement, personnel, research and development…
I will guarantee you the people do not know what is going on. Until I got back this afternoon, I had to go home and make a speech and started reading some of these dailies that we get over our fax machines and got some phone calls from…
That is a very good example of something you can spend a lot of time on, but it is important to troops. They are over there fighting for our freedom. We need to make it possible for them to have the fundamental right to vote and make sure…
reclaiming my time. So the right answer is to fix the growth rate factor, no question about it. But that fix is not going to be accomplished in the next 2 weeks. So unless we do something adequate, you are going to have perfection be the…
reclaiming my time. I do not think the House bill has any money at all for physicians in it. That is the point.
the gentlewoman who is the sponsor of this amendment, Mike McIntyre, and I all live in the same part of the country; and we have all seen this tragedy. Scott Gardner is from my hometown, York, South Carolina. I know his parents. In…
we have three tax cut bills before us today, a large one coming up tomorrow, and here is the problem with doing business that way, especially under suspension. When you break these tax cuts into so many small places, virtually fragments…
it is my sad responsibility as dean of the South Carolina delegation to advise the House, and especially those who served here in the 1980s, that Carroll Campbell, who served here from 1978 to 1986, died yesterday. He served here for a…
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