Marshall Sanford

If I had ever found myself in real trouble with the option of only one call, it would have been to Gordon.

Love was the easiest word to describe him, and I suppose what I will most miss.

He didn't spend his time talking about his faith, he lived it.

If I had ever found myself in real trouble with the option of only one call, it would have been to Gordon.

He lived a life that towers as an example to each of my four boys.

In short, he didn't spend his time talking about his faith, he lived it.

Love was the easiest word to describe him, and I suppose what I will most miss.

In his 44 years he did not spectate on life, he lived it.

He had the light, you could see it in his eyes and in his actions.

I rise to ask for the help of my colleague, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), in bringing just compensation and closure to the surviving families of a tragic accident involving United States servicemen. On September 13 of…

I think my dad would be rolling around in the grave right now if he knew that we were part of a 19-country alliance wherein we were picking up about 80 to 90 percent of the bill. Yet, that happens to be the case. So the question with this…

I rise in support of the timing and consideration of this bill because ultimately I think that this is a constitutional question. It is one that the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) has raised because he knows what our Founding…

the same study, if one were black, one would actually earn a negative rate of return on the investment because of the shorter life expectancy with black males. So this translates into real money over a person's retirement, because that…

And, basically, what it said is that none of us have any legal claim whatsoever to our own Social Security money. So this whole issue of private property rights, the issue of owning our own account, seeing a monthly statement, knowing to…

As the gentleman is pulling that chart up, Mr. Speaker, what I think is interesting about what the gentleman was getting at, again, is this whole notion that we have said we are going to have surpluses basically as far as the eye can see…

This just goes back to what we were talking about, which is the very poor rate of return that could be projected for future retirees in the current system. That is not to say that Social Security has not done a lot of good for my mom or my…

Yes. So basically $100 billion, to keep the math simple, got borrowed here, and 277 versus 164, again a difference of about $100 billion that was borrowed in 1995. In 1996, $261 was what we borrowed, and 107, a little more than that. We…

I have got friends back home that said, ``Mark, are you all a bunch of green-eye-shade-covered accountant types in Washington, or are you not the guys that are cutting spending in Washington, taking stuff away from people?'' ... All we are…

I stand as one against sending troops to Kosovo and one very much behind the timing of this vote for a couple of different reasons, but one in which was well described by Henry Kissinger yesterday. Yesterday, he said before our committee…

I agree, but I think, if the gentleman will yield, what is interesting is that before we can get to any Social Security plan, and the gentleman is right, I have been a big proponent of a number of different things on that front, we…

That begins with straightforward and honest accounting, which is what the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Coburn) is getting at. Looking at the numbers, by any family definition, if we had somebody living on our street that had to borrow from…

And, most significantly, I think they would keep in place the safety. The key issue with Social Security is safety of Social Security. If we were to draw a financial pyramid, the safest investments ought to be there at the foundation, if…

On that point, I think it is interesting that Economist magazine, which is certainly well regarded, ran an article in the last 2 weeks called ``Counting Your Chickens Before They're Hatched'', and what the article talked about are the…

what I think the gentleman from Oklahoma is pointing out here is something that really the American public is way ahead of us on. Unfortunately, he is exactly right in that this is beginning to show itself in the confidence that people…

And could I add on that point? I do not know if the gentleman has looked at the analytical perspectives within this year's budget, but there are assumptions that could make those red numbers, frankly, a lot bigger. Because one of the…