Mike Conaway

Yes, sir. This goes into the part of the bill that talks about additional consideration. The administrator has wide leeway in how they grant these grants, and I would simply like in the Record, in the law, that this is one of the things…

we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the 2008 budget that the Democrats are putting together. In all likelihood, it will require a spending of $2.9 trillion. Let me put that money in perspective. That is $90,000 plus every second of…

for the past decade, within rural communities throughout the country, home water bills have increased faster than the rate of inflation, and it seems likely that this trend will continue. Currently, rural populations across America are…

Because, as you know, I am only one election away from being back in public practice. So maintaining my credentials that I have used for 30-plus years is important. Part of that work I did was with taxpayers, folks who actually make money…

I am opposed to this nonbinding resolution. This is a vehicle that the majority is using to bring us to this debate tonight. The resolution is pretty simple in its language. It simply says that Congress disapproves of the decision…

And my good colleague has added to the list of folks that are going to be impacted by this reduced cash flow to these agencies. Think about that for a second. That is what we are talking about, over at the Social Security Administration…

my sense from being around for a little better than 2 years now is that the reaction that was forced upon the Capitol Hill Police went against their nature. Their nature is to protect, not only to protect you and I and any other…

But under the Democrats' H.R. 6 they passed 11 days ago, Big Oil is defined as any C corporation exploring for oil and gas, any C corp. That includes ExxonMobil, all the way down to the smallest C corp, and that is tax phrase, for those…

But I did want to respond just a little bit to what the previous speaker bragged about. She did leave out one minor issue, though, and that is that some of the antiwar protestors brought spray paint with them. And they came to this…

Let me make a comment if I could on something that you had said. You talked about what hardworking Americans do with the money that they earn and keep; and you went through a litany of things that they buy, washers and dryers, cars and all…

I have also heard they are going to wipe out all the earmarks. It will be their definition of an earmark, and it will be interesting to see which earmarks really get zeroed out and which ones don't and how they parse that definition…

It is not likely that this continuing resolution will go through committee either. It is just going to get dropped on us like a laser-guided bomb, rushed straight to the floor, not going to go through committee, not going to have the…

It is a matter of equity, because States that have income taxes, those income taxes that you pay in the State reduce your for Federal tax purposes. So you get to deduct those State income taxes. States without an income tax, unless we put…

I rise today to commend the Richland Springs Coyotes football team for winning the 2006 Six-Man Division 1 State Champions and the Sports Illustrated six-man football poll national championship. With its second national crown in 3 years…

We said it, our guys said it, but today was a particular one where our good colleague from Maryland just seemed to pooh-pooh the idea that there were some flaws in this bill that we did not need to worry about because we are the House of…

Electronic filing before the IRS will have their computer systems ready to be able to receive that information coming in as a result of the late-breaking changes that we Republicans made in December to extend many of the tax credits that…

Too many, clearly. There are not a lot of lines created or spoken here that many people quote. The inaugural address produces great lines. It is not what you do for your country, all those kinds of lines that come out. I do not know of…

It must be great, it must be wonderful to be so smugly self-confident to know the answers unequivocally. Things going on in Iraq are anything but clear-cut. We have some tough things going on ahead of us. I think there is a phrase that…

I have talked about Social Security being basically a contract with ourselves, a promise with ourselves, that we would not break that. From now, every time I talk about that, I will have to think about this legislation, have to think about…

The word ``integrity'' in this bill has been used several times today. It is offensive in the extreme just because of what my colleague just mentioned. The lead-in sentence to section 202, which is the beginning of this wreck where we take…

One of the things that it was a bit counterintuitive in west Texas, there was no bumper sticker. The old business has gone through a series of booms and busts that, I suspect are typical in most businesses, but they are pretty dramatic in…

Let me comment on what happens, or the mechanics of the exploration business in the domestic arena. I have got some statistics here that just are almost incomprehensible in their scope. E&P is an acronym or initials for exploration and…

Let me just comment on that. Let me make one clarifying point. You said, we are 20 days into this issue. The 18th will be our 14th day. And the first tax increase will come within the first 2 weeks, on the 14th day.

American Samoa, which the average rate there is $3.15 an hour. So apparently StarKist wants tuna that pack cheaply instead of good taste.

Looking at the tax cuts for 2001 and 2003, it might be helpful to get into the Record what one of the impacts has been from those, from that tax policy being in place. For the first quarter of fiscal 2007, the Federal Government's deficit…