Marshall Sanford

The reason I think that is so important is, more than anything, and this is again what the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, said, that you have to create a firewall between political forces in Washington and that money. If…

I know that the primary focus of our brief visit this afternoon is on government expenditure, it is on truth in advertising, if you want to call it that, because the government has been, I think, disingenuous with the way it has called…

Of the available choices, I mean, it seems to me that the most reasonable of those three choices would be growing the assets of the trust fund at a higher rate. And then the question simply is, well, do we do that collectively, which is…

I would say again, and I do not want to go off the subject, which again is rightly focused on honesty in accounting, and that is if we, as my colleagues know, if we have to borrow money to get to run the surplus that we are running, most…

Because what I think is interesting about that chart is that, while we may not get it in Washington, folks back home in Oklahoma or folks back home in South Carolina or folks back home across this country really understand this chart; and…

So some of these looks at fixing the problem may fix the trust fund but make it so that somebody has to live 150 years to get their return. That is not the promise of Social Security. What I am hearing from constituents back home is Social…

I rise today because in many ways we are a country in search of heroes. We look back through the history pages for heroes. We look at George Washington. We look at Patton. We look at William Wallace. We look at Colonel Joshua Chamberlain…

I admire the intention of my colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel) on this proposal, but I would respectfully ask that my colleagues reject it. I would say that for four different reasons. I would say, first of all, that the…

I think what he is talking about in his point of order is something that ultimately watches out for the American taxpayer. And lest we forget, this body is designed and built for ultimately watching out for the taxpayer of the United…

If we are to get monetary policy right and defense policy right and Social Security checks on time, this government too has to be limited. And for that reason alone, I would stand in support of the Royce amendment.

my father always taught me that there was no higher calling than to do your duty. In the words of Robert E. Lee, ``Duty, there is the sublimist word in our language. Do your duty in all things . . . You cannot do more, you should never…

I rise not so much in opposition to this authorization, but frankly against the appropriation which will come later this week, because it seems to me that last year on this House floor, when the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and…

I stand here as a conservative in support of this bill, because I think we all have to ask ourselves, when the Federal Government controls $1.7 trillion worth of daily activity as we go through the year, do we want people to have…

But in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision, they have also held in a different version a separation of church and States than the one that you voted for. The Supreme Court said that we could not practice openly and freely religion in the schools…

Which is a great thing. In other words, that is what we are charged to do by the Founding Fathers. I think in the same way, it is a very legitimate point, a very legitimate point to say that, in this debate, we ought to look at limits on…

Mr. Speaker, if we stop and think about it, our Founding Fathers built our country on a simple concept called freedom. Freedom is the ingredient that they willed for every human soul. Freedom is not something that Nelson Mandela saw for…

I have got a question from the standpoint of accounting. I mean, in the President's budget that was sent up to the Congress, it listed in it a $9.5 billion surplus, and yet the national debt would go up by $176 billion. That is the…

I rise today because it was just a few weeks ago that the President of the United States in this very chamber said that we ought to reserve every dollar, every penny of a budgetary surplus and put it into Social Security. What was…

I have before you a bill that I introduced today. It is a bill that would put the worst insomniac in the world to sleep. I look here at 160 or 170 pages that by themselves are long and boring pages. And yet what this bill is about is, in…

I rise here acknowledging the fact that people work very hard in Congress, but what I think we have to remind ourselves is the fact that we are not veterans, some of us are, we are not farmers, we are not teachers, all of whom deserve a…

Mr. Chairman, last month the people of India celebrated their 50th anniversary of independence and democracy. It takes perhaps a special effort for many Americans to imagine when our democracy was only 50 years old and the great hurdles we…

I have been hearing a fair bit about taxes. I think that is going to be the subject of debate over this next week and the week after. When we talk about taxes, I think we are talking about something much more important than taxes alone…

My only question for the gentleman would be, does he think that there might be 3 percent or just shy of 3 percent of waste within the State Department?

This amendment would leave it up to you all basically to decide on how those resources might shift. All it does is freeze and prevent in essence a 3-percent increase.

I would call a cut a cut from what we are spending today. I think we both know this is simply a freeze at 1997 levels.