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I will attempt to be mercifully brief. My amendment would simply do this: Our rules and the way we function here would prevent all of the hard work that goes on in attempting to reduce spending. All of the efforts on behalf of many of my…
Currently, small community water systems across America are being forced to increase rates to meet clean water regulations, and some of my constituents pay almost 800 percent more for their water than their urban counterparts. While the…
Mr. Chairman, the other side has been very good tonight, as they are most every night since they have been in the majority of retelling and retelling over and over the sins of the past. Quite frankly, those sins are hard to deny, given the…
the amendment is pretty straightforward. We have heard hours and hours today of debate on whether or not we should cut spending out of this proposed appropriations bill that has been brought forward. The elephant in the room that we don't…
during this process of the debate over the last several hours, Member after Member on our side have come to the aisle and proposed amendments that would reduce spending off of this appropriations bill. They do it in good faith but the…
I appreciate being able to offer this amendment tonight. What I would like to do is establish the legislative history for a pilot project that would help eradicate a tactical cover along the Rio Grande. My amendment simply adds $5 million…
Next Monday, our Nation will pay tribute to all the young men and women who fought and died so bravely and honorably for our Nation. On Memorial Day, we will celebrate with parades and speeches and flag waving and fireworks, as we should…
I believe this is a ruse to hide behind a tax increase. I know my colleagues on the other side will argue it is not a tax increase, but I can assure you that American families in 2010 whose financial circumstances are similar in 2011, will…
I rise today to commend Southwest Airlines and their 30 years of service to the Permian Basin. For the past three decades, Southwest Airlines has provided friendly and affordable air services in and out of Midland International Airport…
I think to the other Members in the House listening to this debate this sounds like a school yard kind of struggle: Yes, you are; no, you're not; yes, you are; no, you're not. We are back and forth. We are both using the same set of facts…
The Internal Revenue Code, 1986, as amended, is incredibly complicated... In other words, Congress was offended that you could have people so structure their compliance with the tax code in existence at that point in time that they did not…
Oh, absolutely. When you turn on a television program that is going to have some adult content in it, most of them say, viewers, give you a warning that this next program may not be suitable for young children. Well, I am going to give a…
This is the alternative. The regular tax code is much simpler. It is straightforward.
Monday, April 23 of this year marked the beginning of Small Business Week, honoring small business owners and their employees for their dedication and hard work that has helped to ensure that this Nation continues to remain a strong leader…
I want to talk first about PAYGO, and then I want to talk about something a little closer to home for Texans, and that is the way sales taxes are treated in the budget and under the current Tax Code. For the entire time I have been here in…
I was also sitting with my older son, who is a broker with Merrill Lynch. And while his CPA was handing him his tax return, he was going through it, looking at it and he suddenly discovered that he owed a relatively sizeable amount of…
I need to correct something. The sales tax issue that I was talking about is included within the overall numbers that I talked about. Those overall numbers are the same ones that compare to the $3,000 tax hit that you will have. The sales…
In its purest form it would mean that any new spending that this House decides is good Federal new spending, whether that's new, new spending or a growth in expenditures that is built into current mechanisms, would be paid for, in effect…
I rise tonight in recognition of Jack Calvert for 16 years of service as the mayor of the city of Lampasas in the 11th District of Texas. Mayor Calvert graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in 1956 and served in the Army as a second…
I want to speak against this Progressive Caucus budget in the strongest terms available. Over the last couple of weeks, I have somewhat tongue in cheek talked about when the Defeat in Iraq Caucus and when the Defeat in Afghanistan Caucus…
This budget resolution we are talking about tonight is a target-rich environment for things that we can disagree about that are in there. I have been tasked to talk about the things that aren't in the budget that we wish we would have been…
If you look at our history, if you look at the year 1776 and you study George Washington that year, he got up every day thinking that was the last day of the revolution. His army in many cases was in tatters, it was unpaid, it was…
Let me finish off, and I will yield back for a little bit. We are talking about young men and women's lives who have volunteered to do a fight for us on our behalf, to fight an enemy that is really bad individuals, to stand between us and…
I would like to add one aspect that hasn't been discussed. We hate to engage in too much speculation, but let us assume that this thing passes and the President vetoes it or let us assume that cooler heads prevail and this thing fails this…
I would argue there are really only two choices in this issue, and this third choice is false and misleading. Here is the example: let's assume for the sake of this argument that Democrats decide in March of 2008 we need to stop this…
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