I am pleased to be informed, though I consider it a strange ruling, Mr. Speaker. A great American hero from Arizona has said that section 527 organizations are ``the latest manifestation of corruption in American politics.'' Yet this House…

I invited the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) and every Member of the Republican leadership and Members of this House to join to make this a truly bipartisan effort to clean up what one great Arizonan has said is ``a manifestation of…

The gentleman is aware that with this measure we are asking the 527s to do the same thing that trial lawyers and labor unions, myself, yourself, and every candidate already does. That is all this bill does; is that correct?

as the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Thurman) just pointed out, we offered the Republican majority an opportunity in the Committee on Ways and Means last fall in the Thurman-Doggett proposal to deal with this problem of prescriptions for…

Members may not recognize this fellow in the fedora standing in the shadows, but they ought to be aware of what he is doing. He is a caricature of America's leading tax shelter hustlers. This bill is his bill. By restricting amendments, by…

In 1996, I voted to increase the Social Security earnings limit to $30,000, effectively the year after next. In 1998, I voted to increase it even further, up to $39,000. So I am, of course, supportive when the Republican leadership finally…

when two people walk into the same pharmacy and one, who has no insurance, is forced to pay 136 percent more than the other, who is one of the pharmaceutical industry's most favored customers, something is very wrong. That something wrong…

this candy is about 2 years too late, is it not? But it ought to be in the context of what kind of budget we are putting together. What are they doing with Social Security? What are they doing with Medicare? Why do they have to send…

well, leave it to the House Republicans to convert an issue that enjoys such broad bipartisan support into a totally contrived election-year ploy. Had they the slightest interest in correcting the marriage penalty in a timely way, it would…

did I understand, then, that 3 years ago every Democrat on the Committee on Ways and Means voted to implement 100 percent of the contract of America marriage penalty relief, and the Republicans rejected it and did not think it was the…

Unfortunately, this bill is made only marginally better by the amendment that is offered. It is called a repose bill, but what we are doing in this debate on the amendment is the expose part. And if my colleagues will just listen to a…

what better way to begin this Congress in the new millennium, when we have a leadership here in the House that is engaged in a perpetual debate, should the Congress do nothing or should the Congress do just a little? With plans for doing…

the reports that the House is returning to work today are inaccurate. This House will complete month one of the new millennium with no action either on this floor or in committee on any of the major issues that this country faces. Nothing…

we have all seen the heartbreaking stories of huddled masses of refugees after a flood or hurricane, a civil war, a natural or manmade disaster, searching for food and water and lost family members. It warms our hearts to hear of…

It commemorates failure. It deserves a name: The Republican Congressional Failure Act of 1999. As late as September 19, the Speaker, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert), told the country that "by the first of October we will have all…

while I have not heard many cries of Happy New Year or singing of Auld Lang Syne, today is New Year's day for the Federal fiscal year. This is day number one, and we find ourselves in this new year with the Government being able to operate…

of course the raid on Social Security is the one our Republican friends have already incurred through this year, but what I would like to focus on are the millions of Americans that are out there right now preparing our lunch at a fast…

Mr. Speaker, when the Republican Majority Leader was campaigning in Texas, he declared Social Security, "a bad retirement program," "a rotten trick on the American people", and said, "I think we are going to have to bite the bullet on…

During the first 7 months of this year in this Republican House, we met for a total of 87 days. In those 87 days, the House managed to pass a little less than five bills per month that actually have been enacted into law. This is…

the national Census mandated by the United States Constitution and conducted every 10 years since 1790 has been newly discovered by our Republican friends and declared an emergency for spending purposes, to avoid spending limitations. Now…

of this amendment it can be said, seldom have so few worked so hard to do so little. Who could be against the little that this substitute proposes? Only those of us who are committed to doing more, who realize that the modest changes…

today the business of this House will focus on the question of campaign finance reform. It is indeed an important debate because the agenda of this Congress is being set by the special interest contributors that increasingly dominate our…

today this House has an important opportunity to clean up the special interest money mess that dominates our campaigns. Approval of the bipartisan Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform legislation can go a long way in correcting some of the…

surely one of the most bizarre announcements of this do-little Congress was the declaration yesterday by the Republican leadership that there will be no tax bill this year, because there simply will not be enough time to consider the…

listening to these excuses this morning from our Republican colleagues, I cannot help but think how far this great Republican revolution has sagged. My colleagues claimed they wanted to change everything, and yet they justify this…