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And under Section 127, would a routine prepayment within the 730-day period; as my colleague knows, with one's mortgage statement they can have a routine prepayment on top of their annual mortgage payment or a home equity payment, for that…
if I could, I would like to engage the chairman of the subcommittee in a colloquy with respect to sections 126 and 127 of the conference report. First, if I might, in understanding, does the 2-year residency requirement mean that once…
So once I have established the 2-year residency, I can claim homestead on the house I am in now. The house, if I sell that house and buy another house, that house and each house thereafter, so long as I maintain the initial 2-year…
Mr. Speaker, it has come to my attention that the bill as written by the Senate that we are discussing today would further encroach upon the rights of the States to set their own laws and policies with respect to homestead. While I would…
since everybody was using props, I think I will use a prop, in my opinion, that talks about the deficit. It is a credit card. It is not cash. We do not have the cash yet. Anybody who believes a 10-year projection on what the surplus is…
I think this is one of the largest mistakes that we could make in this country. I think we have to go back and take a look at the economic history, the fiscal economic history of the United States, to see where we are, how we got there and…
I appreciate that, but nonetheless we have heard a number of colleagues say we have to deal with priorities here. Well, we seem to lose those priorities when it came down to concrete and cement and all that we were going to do. Now there…
just to make it clear, both Governor Bush, a Republican, and former governor Ann Richards, a Democrat, have supported this, as well as the Texas State legislature, which is a split legislature between Republican and Democrat. By entering…
I rise to express my most heartfelt sympathy to the families of Officer Jacob Chestnut and Special Agent John Gibson. On behalf of my constituents and my family, my deepest gratitude for their service to our Nation. They died doing their…
first of all, to clarify the comments of the gentleman who just spoke, it is my understanding while Ronald Reagan never asked for MFN status for the Soviet Union, he did repeatedly ask and receive MFN status, now normal trading relation…
Jake Pickle was a student of the ``old school of politics.'' Raised in the small Texas town of Roscoe, Jake never forgot his rural roots. Jake belongs to a dwindling group of Texas politicians who were the protegees of another great Texan…
is it not a little bit ironic that yesterday the House voted to repeal the Federal income tax code and yet today we are going to vote on legislation to create yet another loophole in the income tax code. We are kind of going in the wrong…
Mr. Speaker, after the highway bill that busts the budget and all the pork projects in it, and the fact that we debated the Republican budget resolution at 12:30 in the morning because they did not want to debate it in the light of day, I…
I rise today to point out a case of unfortunate and blatant hypocrisy on the part of the majority. The Congress created the Congressional Budget Office 23 years ago so that the House and Senate would have an impartial and independent…
First of all, I do not play golf. Second of all, I was unaware you could play golf at night. I would in many evenings rather be home with my children. But I do not recall the gentleman being on the floor at 12:30 in the morning when we…
I rise against the rule. Once again, it appears that the average Members of the House, Republicans and Democrats, cannot be trusted to legislate, even though that is what we were sworn in to do. The Committee on Rules and the Republican…
about eight hours ago in the middle of the night we debated the Republican budget resolution when nobody was around. I think people in Hawaii watched it, but every place else Americans were probably sleeping. The reason we debated it then…
it is really kind of a joke that we are here at 12:30 in the morning Eastern time debating this. We heard about families sitting around the dining room table and what they could end up cutting. None of the traditional families in my…
I rise as a co-sponsor and strong supporter of H.R. 2604, the Religious Liberty and Charitable Donation Protection Act. This legislation provides much-needed protection to churches and other charitable organizations by preventing creditors…
as we understand, current law does not allow for any institution which switches a charter from Federal to State or State to Federal to retain the previous name of origin, if you will, in their name, that they were a State bank or Federal…
I can come down almost on either side. But if we do not deal with it tonight, and my bet is we probably are not going to deal with it tonight, we are going to have to deal with it at some point in the future. First of all, the chairman…
I thank the gentleman. My only concern with this, and I think all of us are concerned with this legislation in terms of consumer protection and disclosure and appearances of whether or not there is some sort of taxpayer-backed guarantee to…
I want to quote Alan Greenspan, because we have heard him talked a lot about. This quote is from the hearing on May 21, 22, 1997 in the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, and this is in response to a question which I asked…
I rise in proud recognition of a great athlete and legend in the City of Houston, Clyde Drexler, on the occasion of his retirement from the Houston Rockets and the National Basketball Association. Clyde "the Glide" Drexler had an…
I have no particular problem with the creation of a another commission to study the needs of the Social Security program, so long as it is balanced and without agendas other than the true need to preserve the safety net for America's…
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