Joe Barton

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…

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…

I am a sincere supporter of term limits. I think the Dingell-Barton amendment is the closest to the spirit of the people. In my town meetings and in my public meetings with constituents, they are very adamant that the problem they are…

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…

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…

I want to reinforce all that has been said in favor of this legislation. Will Rogers, the great philosopher from Oklahoma, once said that he never met a man that he did not like. I think we could say about President Bush that there was…

next week, on July 3, Americans will be preparing to celebrate our independence from the British empire over 200 years ago. They will have another reason to celebrate next week; July 3 is the day in which we become independent from having…

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?

I am reminded of a story that President Abraham Lincoln used to tell. Somebody was about to be hung and the crowd was gathering on the town square and they asked the gentleman about to be hung if he had any last remarks; and he said, if it…

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…

Mr. Speaker, if you went out to the American people and asked them, what does FDA stand for, I doubt very seriously that very many people could say that it stand for Food and Drug Administration. I joked earlier in the year in a television…

It is actually a breast sensor pad which is designed to be used by women to self-examine their breasts to see if they have breast cancer lumps. Mr. Speaker, it took the FDA 10 years to approve this simple device for limited use under a…

my good friend and colleague from Michigan, Mr. Dingell, a member of the Committee on Commerce, asked the question, Where is the money going to go? With all due respect, that is the wrong question. The question is, Where is the money going…

I wanted to focus on this, the majority argument that you were speaking of, but before I do that I want to directly answer the question on de minimis. It is our intent that de minimis is equal or less, and in an economy that is $6…

as the much maligned author of this amendment, I feel somewhat put upon. Some of the more polite things the amendment has been called tonight are irresponsible, stupid and insane. It has not been called unnecessary. There have been…

I just want to commend my Texas colleagues, Mr. Barton and Mr. Archer, on their fine work in developing this balanced budget initiative alternative. I can give you one simple reason this tax limitation balanced budget amendment is…

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 want to conclude very quickly by stating that this is about helping us to get to a balanced budget. The last balanced budget of the U.S. Government was in 1969. My son was born in 1970. He is now about to enter graduate school. He has…

Well, I think it is interesting that when you really look at the facts and you look at the data that is out there, every State that has it, it works. We pointed out, you pointed out, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Hall] pointed out, that…

This is about making it more difficult to raise taxes, but not making it impossible. One very good thing about our amendment: It would take bipartisan support to pass any additional tax increases because it is very unlikely that either…

I am sure that you have seen this study, but you might not have had a chance to really study it in detail, but March 19 through March 21 there was a national poll conducted by Americans for Tax Reform. They polled 1,205 registered voters…

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 know that some Members of this body have said that this is some sort of a Republican policy gimmick. But you are not a Republican, obviously. I think you are very proud to be a Democrat.