I am afraid we are getting into the area of everything having been said about this bill but not everybody having said it. Nonetheless I think it is important to reflect and realize that this action that was taken last year by the House was…

when Betty Ann and I came to Congress in 1989, Herb and Laura were some of the first people we met. I was on the Committee on Armed Services at the time. And he was a good and decent man. More than that, he was a gentleman and a friend to…

Mr. Speaker, we do not have any particular problem with this House resolution, but it is almost surrealistic what we are seeing here. This is not even a concurrent resolution, it is a sense of the House. Now, 2 weeks ago, in the committee…

What I am saying is an hour ago we had a motion to recommit that did this. The gentleman could have joined with us on that motion to recommit, any number of my Republican colleagues could have if they had wanted to do something now. This…

I am in favor of Medicare revision and all of the things that the previous speaker said. The problem with the Republican bill is they are trying make an insurance product out of a benefit, and one cannot do that. Insurance is a pooling of…

I rise in support of H.R. 8. The estate tax is an outmoded, inefficient, complicated subjective tax. The Tax Code needs to be rewritten. This is a good first step. This tax applies, as I am told, and I came to this from the standpoint of a…

I hear people talking about what is going on in China: China, China, China. This is about what is good for us. This is a trade bill for the United States, not for China. Know what is important in this bill that nobody has thought about it…

I want to urge the defeat of this amendment. This is not hard. We have made promises to people who have given their productive lives to the uniformed service of this country. This is an attempt to partially fulfill that. The money we are…

I would encourage the majority leader to bring his bill up here and let us vote on it if it is that good. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) has worked well with us on the committee. I do not have any quarrel with the criticism of the…

I agree with everyone who thinks that the current Tax Code is broken. I am on the committee. Let me say at the outset how hard it is to reach a consensus for any change in the Tax Code. The Republicans know they have been in charge 5/2…

It has been very well pointed out by the speakers before me that this country is right now laboring with a 13 percent mortgage on us. Over $300 billion a year. Now, my colleagues, no rational businessperson on earth, with a 13 percent…

Mr. Speaker, I just wish we were talking about the marriage tax penalty. We are talking about a budget process... If my colleagues want to know why the American people are overtaxed, they are overtaxed because they are paying $240 billion…

last year I said when we have projections, and I think the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Minge) is going to talk about projections in a minute, that no reasonable business person in this country that I know of would spend 80 percent of a…

I hope that those who listen will be somewhat informed or enlightened after we are through. Madam Speaker, most observers agree that our national debt is about $5.7 trillion. That $5.7 trillion is composed of two separate and distinct…

I want to take this time to recognize another Texan. Being from Davy Crockett's district, I have to recognize these Texans, as you know, but one of the leaders in the House on financial matters and fiscal conservative business-like…

I voted against the $800 billion tax cut last year. It would have been good for me. People say, well, you all are against tax cuts. It would have been good for me. I would have had a tax cut. I could have voted for it. But it would not be…

If the CBO estimators are wrong in guessing or in predicting what the rate of growth of the economy of this country is going to be for the next 10 years by just one-tenth of 1 percent, if they say over the next 10 years, the rate of growth…

I was in Brussels about a month ago as part of the North Atlantic Assembly, now NATO Parliamentary Group, and had a briefing with General Clark who is Supreme Allied Commander in Europe as well as the Commander of Operation Allied Force…

there will be a lot of rhetoric today, since it is tax day, about the Tax Code, and surely we can do better. It ought to be simplified. But there is one facet of it that I think is good public policy. That is the home mortgage interest…

I like this tax bill. I think it is good public policy. But for the first time in 29 years we now are in a position where we can say to the American people that there is more money coming into this town than leaving. This is just a…

H.R. 2863 is about common sense and basic fairness. It would replace the ``strict liability'' standard with the ``knew or should have known'' standard that is being enforced in the Fifth Circuit, which includes Mississippi, Louisiana, and…

I think what people want us to do is to act reasonably to try to make a fair Tax Code, to try to raise the revenues that are necessary to buy the aircraft carriers, and the planes and the tanks we need for our defense, to try to do some of…

many Members have spoken from the heart and out of their conscience on either side of this issue today, and I want to talk about the procedure, because I am deeply troubled by the procedure that we are following here today on the House…

The fact is that the function of the IRS is necessary. Its sole purpose is to collect taxes. No one likes to pay taxes, so their anger is projected upon those who do the collecting. We have to have taxes to fund the vital and necessary…

H.R. 1420, the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act for the first time establishes a conservation mission for America's 509 refuge units. Equally important, the measure establishes hunting, fishing, and environmental education…