Charles W. Stenholm

I use this time to respond to my good friend from Texas by saying he made my point, my point in asking that we have a budget before we discuss tax cuts or spending increases. It is the fact that the gentleman's very own bill, which he…

I, too, am a little troubled by some of the rhetoric I have been hearing from my colleagues today that the Democratic substitute does nothing, objecting to the language of the Democratic substitute and the motion to recommit making tax…

It is difficult to be perceived as being against a tax cut, particularly when you agree that the marriage tax penalty should be corrected, but it is not difficult to oppose a bill that not only corrects the marriage tax penalty, but also…

What we are suggesting is that the conservative thing for this House to do is to make the tough calls on the budget and put the tax cut within the confines of what we can agree in a bipartisan way is the blueprint that will allow our…

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as the principal Democratic author of House Concurrent Resolution 199, I join the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Bonilla) in expressing my strong support on this measure, which simply calls on the Supreme Court to rule on public prayer at…

I rise in support of H.R. 1906. Let me say I am grateful to the conferees for their recognition of the economic plight of American agriculture and I commend the chairman and the ranking member for their efforts. I cannot, however, feel…

I, too, look forward to working with the gentleman from Maine. I appreciate him bringing it to the attention of the full body, bringing this, not necessarily unique problem, but it is one which is clearly made possible in the legislation…

I hope that this might prove what I hear is happening on the agriculture appropriations to be unfounded. We have an opportunity to drop the sanctions language. One of the things that has hurt agriculture time and time again is when we have…

I have no argument with this resolution. I do have a problem with hypocrisy. Where has the majority been for the last 6 months? The Blue Dogs put a budget on this floor 6 months ago which was not just a meaningless, nonbinding, feel-good…

what I say to that constituent of mine, okay, what we are saying in the Blue Dog budget, we are prepared to make the tough decisions and squeeze the budgets. We will work with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get the most…

I want to say that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) has had just a fascinating discourse on a subject which is of extreme importance. I want to commend him for the diligence in which he has pursued a subject that is every bit…

If you do not believe that necessary spending on defense is a prudent expenditure of your dollars, you are right. But last time I checked, one of the most important responsibilities that this Congress has is to maintain the national…

lest anyone misunderstand, the main point that we have made regarding the tax cut, we totally acknowledge all taxes belong to the taxpayer. We acknowledge that. I have no difficulty with those that say, if there is a surplus, we are going…

that was the thing I was talking about a moment ago, which is why I call this the most fiscally irresponsible action because it is back-end loaded. We have had a little flury. I am not sure everybody in the country has seen this, but we…

Mr. Chairman, I take to the floor in support of the Coburn amendment and commend the gentleman for his fiscal honesty, and I appreciate the support that others have shown for it. The census obviously is important, but it is also important…

The motion to instruct is truly a debate about priorities and values. The priorities, we believe very strongly this is the time for us to use that which we have the opportunity to do, and, that is, to pay down our national debt. We do have…

I most certainly would not, because I absolutely disagree with the intent of gentleman's amendment. Even though that sounds very reasonable, it completely overlooks one of the fundamental areas I disagree with, that we do not need to be…

That is where we have reasonable differences. I have real life experience on the other side. But also I would point out one other major, important aspect of it. It is rabies control. This is something that is extremely important to the…

I would concur with everything that the gentleman said about the Speaker. There are about 191 Democrats and about 60 on the Republican side that I think would like to see it considered a little earlier, and I would respectfully ask that we…

It would seem to me it would be prudent for us to move the campaign finance reform before we get into what obviously we are going to be getting into.

it is a pleasure today to rise to mark the 25th anniversary of the WIC program, the women, infants and children. I am proud to join my colleagues in support of this very valuable and extremely successful program. Several years ago when I…

I want to use these 5 minutes for purposes of commending the administration's announcement of yesterday in which they are exempting food and medicine from unilateral trade sanctions. This has a possible immediate and positive impact on…