Joe Barton

And that is all in the last month. I mean that is not like 10 years ago or 20 years ago. That is a poll, a national poll taken within the last month.

I actually have a young son and young daughter who are about to enter the job market. My daughter Allison wants to be a teacher. She graduated in December from Texas A&M. My son Brad is graduating from Stanford School of Business in June…

If 75 percent of the Republicans out there listening today or tonight and 63 percent of the Democrats out there listening tonight would pick up the phone, crank up the fax machine, get on the Internet and send an e-mail, we could wake this…

It would be a great idea, and it is legal if people were to fax, e-mail, write, call, send by Pony Express, by any means of communication to their elected Congressman or Congresswoman, be they Republican or Democrat, that they are for this…

What would happen tomorrow on the House floor if three-fourths of the Republicans present and voting voted for tax limitation and 63 percent of the Democrats present and voting voted for tax limitation? Would that be enough to pass this…

So we can cut taxes by a simple majority vote, but we would have to have a two-thirds vote to raise taxes.

To honor that goal, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon) and I have been attempting for the last year to institute random drug testing for Members of Congress and their staffs, and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon) and myself…

Reclaiming my time, if it is never resolved, we have barred one former Member in the history of the Nation from ever coming back on the floor of the House, and that is wrong.

I strongly appreciate the support that the Barton-Minge amendment has on both sides of the House, and I want to point out that under the colloquy agreement, we will get that vote on enforcement no later than July 24. If we win on the…

I think the chairman understands that a number of us, on a bipartisan basis for several years, have been trying to do something to put some enforcement mechanism into the existing Budget Acts that govern our Nation. We have a piece of…

We followed absolute regular order this year. We did not bypass the subcommittee, we did not bypass the full committee, we did not bypass the Committee on Rules. We allowed any Member who wanted to to testify, and when it was before the…

I did not go to Hershey, PA, at the bipartisan retreat, but if I had and would have come on the floor for this debate this evening, I do not believe I would have used words like ``absurd,'' ``mush,'' things of that sort. I do not think…

The CPI is not part of the Internal Revenue Code so it would not take a two-thirds vote. In fact, it would not even take a vote. We could do that by executive order or by regulation of the Department of Labor.

Revenue increases subject to the supermajority requirement include: Income taxes, and I think we all know what a direct income tax is; estate and gift taxes; employment taxes, including Social Security and Medicare; and excise taxes, such…

I am convinced that, while they have problems in their antidrug efforts, President Zedillo and his Government are making a good-faith effort to be a good-faith partner with the United States in the war against drugs. If we go ahead today…

Term limits main purpose is to get entrenched incumbents out of office as quickly as possible so that there is turnover. There is one better way to do that. That is to support retroactivity. If my colleagues support what their people…

The term they are then serving would count, plus any prior terms would count. If that term you were in plus prior terms equaled six terms, you would not be eligible for reelection. You would be able to serve out that term.

I am not an opponent of term limits. I have opposed the provisions that restrict the House to three 2-year terms. I am a proponent of six 2-year terms, and I am also a proponent of letting the States take different positions, but I am not…

This $3 million one-time grant will help start the permanently endowed scholarship fund. Texas A&M is going to raise privately $25 million to permanently endow this scholarship fund. But this $3 million will be the first of the funds for…

It wasn't on the approved list in the United States it was approved in Europe. And so the gentleman went to Italy and his surgeons, I believe, flew to Italy with him, and they had the operation, and it was a success and he went mountain…

And my name change is from the National Science Foundation and we are adding ``engineering.'' Does the gentleman really think that is going to confuse people?

If the replacement tax raised the same amount or less revenue than the current tax, then the answer is yes.

My question is, If you do not agree with the language but you agree with the concept, is there going to be alternative language offered by the Democrat minority?

I think that is a very basic point that we need to emphasize as often as possible. Under the language that is going to be voted on this evening, we could change from a national income tax, graduated system that we have today, to the flat…

I think one of the other concerns under the current tax code, most Republicans and far-thinking Democrats support a rate reduction in the capital gains tax. What is the gentleman's understanding of what we could do with capital gains, if…