Zach Wamp

This is another good example where the gentleman offering the amendment is in a constructive way enhancing what we are trying to accomplish with good reform. Certainly the reformers here in support of Shays-Meehan accept the amendment and…

The operative word is ``finance.'' This is about campaigns, this amendment. I agree, frankly, with the intent of the author of this amendment. I agree so many times with my friend, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant). But campaign…

I think in the memory of these two outstanding men, we should all commit ourselves to love each other more, to be more civil, to hold this institution up in the way that they deserve. In memory of them, that we would, as a people, find…

If we started prospectively, I am told the budget would be balanced in 2 years. So things are going in the right direction. I believe that the markets are a reflection today of the renewed confidence that things are changing in Washington.

I think today is a day that we should stop... to look back. In 1957, when I was born, my parents paid less than 10 percent of every dollar they made in combined taxes, local, State and Federal put together. The Federal tax rate was only a…

I want to make reference to four retiring Members... All four of these men have meant so much to this institution and this Nation, but so much to me personally... we do have an extraordinarily high amount of senior Members retiring that…

To me, the greatest tragedy of all, Congressman Dickey, our young people in this country are watching what we are doing. ... Our kids do not want to be involved in politics.

The little people are going to be hurt. That is why I drew the correlation of one acre of land, a little small property owner, who maybe they want to subdivide that property and sell a building lot off a piece of property they inherited…

All of their equity, and most of the property in this country is leveraged at a very high level to begin with. So you are cutting into the equity, the savings, and the investment of the citizens of this country.

They would not be able to sell that property, and it would just stymie the industry, and it would be a very inequitable situation we would be agreeing, and I wholeheartedly agree with your argument.