today Speaker Gingrich seeks our approval of a resolution on a subject that this Republican Congress has quite obviously developed considerable expertise in. That subject is ignorance. Normally ignorance is demonstrated here in this House…

the death subsidy must end. That is why I am a cosponsor of this amendment, because the taxpayer subsidy of the only agricultural product in this entire Nation, indeed in this world, when used precisely as directed by the producer…

there are a number of rules that people say apply here in Washington that we do not think a lot of down in Texas. The first of these is that in Washington apparently a promise is never a guarantee. We have the promise of a balanced budget…

thousands of young Americans across this country will get absolutely no relief from this Republican tax bill. No, all they will get is a tax increase. That is right. This bill imposes a new tax on educational opportunity, and it is wrong…

one of the many good reasons to oppose this Republican tax bill is the fact that it actually increases taxes on some Americans, a tax on educational opportunity. There are universities all across this country who assist their graduate…

we are of course back here today to discuss another wreckconciliation bill. We are having another big wreck in Congress, even bigger than the one yesterday; and of course it is true that the liberals in Washington are causing this wreck…

Indeed, when we talked about getting a balanced budget agreement that has true balance, I always thought the idea was that there would be shared sacrifice, shared burden, but it would appear that those at the top of the economic ladder now…

Really, is not the measure what one would properly call a wreckonciliation bill, in that it wrecks the balanced budget agreement?

If there is a family out there, maybe both parents having to try to work just to make ends meet and at the same time trying to create a good family environment for their kids. If they work for someone that does not provide health…

for those of us who are truly committed to achieving a balanced budget that will remain balanced, this first effort to implement the balanced budget agreement represents a true setback. They call this bill that we have under consideration…

Indeed, for the ordinary young working families, does this reconciliation bill really offer them much of anything?

watching the sun rise over this Capitol each morning is a truly beautiful sight. The white marble on this building shines radiantly in the morning, and yet I think the same is also true with the birth of many Federal programs. There is…

the Government shutdown artists are at it again. Americans watched with disgust as this House Republican leadership shut down the Government and frittered away one and a half billion dollars of taxpayers' hard-earned money. Well now, this…

the underlying legislation that we are considering this afternoon is indeed very important. Anyone who has ever been at sea and seen a school of dolphin leap into the air knows that this mammal is something that is very precious, another…

I share the commitment of many here today to achieve a balanced budget, but it is not just enough to balance the budget for a nanosecond. It is a question of whether or not we have a plan that will balance the budget and keep it balanced…

it has been said that no price can be placed on honesty, not $3, not $300,000. After 3 months of carefully calculating every angle, of exploring fully the political calculus of every other alternative, the Speaker has reluctantly decided…

as my colleagues know, with each passing day of this Congress more and more Americans are realizing that this Gingrich House is doing less and less to address the real concerns of their everyday lives. The millions of American families who…

as an advocate of the Welfare To Work initiative last year, I come forward to propose a sequel this year: Washington To Work. How about it? How about this House getting to work the way they said they wanted the welfare folks to go to work…

this has been perhaps the most revealing debate of this entire session of Congress. I might say, to use an old phrase, when push comes to shove, we get down to the heart of a critical issue to the American people and we see why it is that…

at the outset of this Congress I was 1 of more than 100 Members of this House to ask that action occur during the first 100 days of this Congress on the issue of campaign finance reform. Well, that period will expire next week. And what…

I say to my colleagues, ``If you want peace, seek justice. The wisdom of that ancient maxim seems to have been completely lost on the Republican leadership of this House. They want peace, they want smiling Democrats at peace on this floor…

it is against this background of false peace that today we are asked to focus entirely on alleged wrongdoing at the White House. For myself, I want a thorough and complete investigation of that alleged wrongdoing at the White House. In…

Mr. Speaker, if the spirit of bipartisanship that we have heard much about over the course of the last few days is to be any more meaningful than ``I'll smile at you if you'll smile at me,'' then I think that a place to start with true…

at this mellow time of interest in bipartisanship and collegiality, I have to say that, frankly, this is a weird resolution. Some might call it a back to the future resolution. Do my colleagues remember the movie about going back to the…

why is Speaker Gingrich still smiling over his ice bucket? It is true, he has collected many an ice bucket, and even though he has had all that ice to try to put that ethics report in deep freeze, he has not been successful. It is sizzling…