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the new minority report released today by the Committee on Ways and Means shows that the latest unfair tax scheme proposed by the majority will be one of the largest tax increases on working families in American history. The new proposed…
In 1996, then-Speaker Newt Gingrich stated the Tax Code over the years has become increasingly politicized and is seen less as a simple tool for raising revenues than as an instrument for social and economic engineering, exponentially…
Today, the IRS now prints more than 1,000 publications, forms, and instruction booklets, and while the Tax Code was a mere 500 pages in 1913, financial publisher CCH says its Standard Federal Tax Reporter, which is the guidance for tax…
I first off want to thank the distinguished minority whip for his leadership of the entire United States Congress on the issue of tax simplification and fairness, an issue that affects every working family in America. Just last week our…
I rise today to claim a victory for Texans, but I remain uncertain that this bill is a victory for Americans or American jobs. For Texans, I am pleased that after a great many months of work and much discussion, this legislation finally…
Mr. Speaker, it is with a profound sense of loss and sadness that I rise today to honor the memory of one of our Nation's most influential leaders, former President Ronald Reagan. Much has been said, and rightfully so, about President…
the new drug discount card is nothing more than the old bait and switch. The Republican leadership continues to try to trick our seniors into thinking they are getting a Medicare prescription drug benefit, while in reality offering nothing…
with nearly 44 million Americans lacking basic health care coverage, it is time to take action. Today, in a disingenuous public attempt to respond to the crisis of the uninsured, the Republican leadership has decided to spend the valuable…
I rise today just as I did almost exactly 14 months ago in strong opposition to the so-called HEALTH Act. Of course, today, we are spending the valuable time and limited resources of the American people debating the HEALTH Act of 2004…
Madam Speaker, today there are 171,917 National Guardsmen and Reservists on active duty. They are facing increasingly difficult circumstances with the most recent extension of the deployment of troops in Iraq. As a consequence of their…
Mr. Chairman, let us balance our budget. Let us pay as we go. Let us pay off our debt and pay off the deficit. Let us support the Blue Dog budget. Following the plan offered by the House Republican leadership will succeed in balancing the…
Mr. Speaker, today the House stands to make a choice. We can choose to support our widowed teachers or we can choose to oppose them. The choice is ours. It is as simple as that. I am appalled that our friends on the other side of the aisle…
we have heard a lot of pretty words from the Republicans tonight, but every one on both sides of the aisle knows that this bill is nothing but a sham, a charade, a shameless trick on America's seniors. America's seniors need help right now…
Many of these folks are going to find out, when Medicare is privatized, as is the plan; that is where we are headed, let us make no mistake about it, we will no longer have to see these groups coming up here to talk to Congress, because we…
Mr. Speaker, do we want to privatize Medicare? That is the question. It is as simple as that. Do we want to make prescription drugs available and affordable for senior citizens, or do we want to give money to HMOs to operate a plan for…
If we want to stand for our military, if we want to stand for our working families, if in this House we want to stand up for the children of America, if that is our priority, then we need to thank the gentleman from California (Mr…
I think I would have to agree with that. I enjoyed listening to my colleague from Washington as he gave the quote, and I have a copy of that quote, and I began reading it. Without going through that long quote again, it does have a lot of…
Mr. Speaker, we have a very important question to answer today: Should we provide prescription drugs for all seniors, or should we provide tax shelters for the few? That is our question. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues in…
Mr. Speaker, we have an opportunity today. We have an opportunity to make prescription drugs both available and affordable to our Nation's seniors. We have an opportunity to slam the door shut on the giant Republican-sponsored gap in…
I rise today to ask several questions. Why does the Republican leadership in this House want to put an additional tax on our veterans? Why does the Republican leadership in this House oppose eliminating the disabled veterans tax? Why is it…
I appreciate the information from the gentleman. I noticed in the initial remarks that several conference reports were mentioned that would be coming up including FAA and DOD and military construction and energy and water. Certainly, those…
it is really pretty simple. Who is going to stand up for America's seniors? Who is going to stand up for rural health care? Who in this body will stand up for rural patients and rural doctors and rural hospitals over the HMOs? The answer…
how can we assume that coverage would be available in my district or in rural America when it is not available now, and countrywide it is not available in 80 percent of rural districts covered where we have Medicare-covered folks?
it is time for the daily Blue Dog report. Mr. Speaker, it has been 847 days since President Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our country. During that time, the national debt has increased by…
speaking from the center, it is an issue of priorities. We have to ask ourselves in this House, who do we stand for? Who do we stand for in this House? Mr. Speaker, as we are well aware by now, last month the other body voted 94 to 2 to…
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