You have had your opportunity to misrepresent the facts, including the fact that only a handful of Democrats supported the conservative coalition budget when well over a majority of our caucus supported that budget. It gets the budget…

Now, the gentleman from California mentioned that there are other measures besides this amendment which only keeps us from wasting a certain amount of public moneys in support of death that ought to be taken. Are there going to be any of…

I know you want to let Medicare wither on the vine. You let Medicare wither on the vine.

America needs a new gardener. When Speaker Gingrich insists that Medicare should be permitted to wither on the vine, it is time to find a gardener who knows the difference between strengthening Medicare and allowing it to shrivel. That is…

I appreciate the observations of our colleague, the gentlewoman from Hawaii, and the gentleman's response, because I think as you described how Medicare would be eventually destroyed, what the gentleman is really getting to is, to use the…

Instead of a trust fund, a slush fund. Instead of furthering and strengthening the trust fund, they would raid that fund in order to provide these special tax breaks. Mr. Speaker, I know you have focused already on this trustees' report…

this House Republican leadership has turned over the job of writing much of our legislation to special interest lobbyists. They gather here at the Capitol weekly to write the Nation's business. So, it is little wonder that now with the…

Actually, it is Lewis, who has almost $200 a month in prescriptions not covered now. And I know the gentleman and Dr. McDermott will remember that when Republicans put out their big strategy, their PR plan on Medicare. They told their own…

our fellow citizens know this Gingrich Congress by its deeds, and first among these is its continuing desire to cut Medicare in order to fund the tax breaks for our most wealthy citizens. We saw a great deal of that last year as they…

the theatrics in which the majority leader engaged in the few minutes before the closing of this Congress tonight again provide America an indication of what is wrong with this Congress. The majority leader, you will remember, outlined a…

the gentleman from Arizona speaks of hypocrisy. Let me point out that he and the gentleman from Ohio and the gentleman from Indiana, who spoke a few moments ago, and the distinguished majority leader, they have voted three times in this…

America need a raise. With the minimum wage at a 40-year low, America needs a raise. But our Republican colleagues, when the housing bill was up, instead of giving us a minimum wage increase they raised rents. And last week, when the…

Desperate times demand desperate actions, and it is little wonder that Mr. Dole would decide to distance himself from this Gingrich Congress. After all, this is a Congress that does not seem to learn its lessons. It is a Congress that has…

Now they are back again with the same type of zealotry that they had in 1995. I think the Four Tops wrote their theme song long before they got to Congress when they wrote ``It's the same old song, just a different verse, since you have…

I rise to salute the candor, ultimately, of my colleague in Georgia, because after some parliamentary mumbo jumbo about what page of the rules book could be used to thwart the desire of the American people for a raise, he has finally come…

Mr. Chairman, this budget has no true balance. It is rather only a retread of the same old Gingrich budget resolution that America rejected last year. And the understanding that the American people have of this budget is proven correct…

the gentlewoman from Texas is right. It is the same old song. As the Four Tops would say, ``It's a different verse since you've been gone.'' That is what this budget is. The Republicans have come back, and they have taken their old last…

last year our Republican colleagues sought to place a $5,000 burden on young people who want a 4-year college education. At the same time, they came along and proposed to give thousands of our youngest Americans a wrong start instead of a…

America needs a raise. The minimum wage, its purchasing power, is approaching a 40-year low, almost as old as I am, since the minimum wage has had purchasing power with as little capability as it does at present. The gentleman from…

America needs a raise. With the purchasing power of the minimum wage now approaching a 40-year low, America needs a raise. And just a few minutes ago we had an opportunity to vote on whether America should get a raise. Unfortunately, at…

the American people have won a victory with reference to these budget negotiations. We are reversing the deficit spiral under Republican administrations in the 1980's. We are making continued progress toward balancing the budget. It is, as…

I believe American working families deserve a raise, and finally this morning we are going to have a vote on that subject. And if my colleagues believe that way, all of America will be able to see that they voted against this call for the…

That is reality. That demonstrates the ability of the American people to get past these stickers saying ``I have been to the zoo'' or ``I planted a tree'' or ``I have a green sport coat,'' and get down to the fact that some people who say…

Empowering the local communities to address these issues. And, of course, I am so amazed at those who will come here on the floor of Congress and they will say, well, I am against pollution. I mean I am not in favor of pollution, I am just…

Or we could expect the same type of thing that we saw last year when there was a bill out here that was called the Clean Water Act amendments, but most everyone that looked at it referred to it as the dirty water act. Most of the…