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I rise tonight to support an amendment that would address what I believe is a hypocrisy that permeates a very important area of national policy. Section 3010 of this bill will pull funding for LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance…
today, March 9, 2006, I missed rollcall vote No. 33, H. Res. 713, on ordering the previous question to provide for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2829) to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy Act. Had I been present, I…
Judge, I thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to share this hour with you tonight and to be able to discuss these very important topics with our colleagues in the House. One of the things that occurred to me while I have been here in…
I agree with that completely, and the evidence is in the statistics that we have and that the gentleman is presenting tonight and that my other colleague from Texas will, I suspect, share with us as well.
I rise today to set the historical record straight. As my colleague Jeb Hensarling recently stated, ``Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts.'' Prior to the war, Members of Congress had access to the same…
I rise today to announce the selection of former Lamesa resident Ms. Morgan Matlock as Miss Texas 2005. She will represent the State of Texas in the 2005 Miss America Pageant. Although she currently resides in Forth Worth, Texas, Ms…
I rise today to memorialize a friend and a true hero of our country. Americans honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom through a variety of methods. Most of the times we talk about this sacrifice in terms of all of…
passing the Central American Free Trade Agreement will not necessitate any changes in U.S. immigration law or U.S. visa policy. Congressional power over immigration policy will go unchanged when this important trade agreement takes effect…
I appreciate my good colleague yielding me this time. I have just come back from Guantanamo Bay about 3 weeks ago. In part of my former life, I served with the 256 MP Company at Fort Hood, Texas. That company had, in addition to traffic…
I was detained and unable to cast a vote on H.R. 2475, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY06, on June 21, 2005. I was enroute to Brownwood, Texas to attend the funeral of Lance Corporal Mario Castillo, a Marine from the 11th District…
during the month of May, many parents and grandparents, as myself, will begin to celebrate college graduations and high school graduations of the next generation of workers in this country. This is the group that we should be engaging in…
today I would like to draw my colleagues' attention to a situation in Africa. President Abasanjo of Nigeria promised, as a result of a lawsuit several years ago, to withdraw Nigerian troops from the Bakassi Peninsula in the Republic of…
on rollcall Nos. 191 and 192, I am not recorded because I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Terry The Acting CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded…
I, too, am concerned about Social Security. Probably the single heaviest lift, as that phrase is used in these Chambers, that we have ahead of us. It will look like a walk in the park when we begin to consider Medicaid and Medicare and…
Well, I spent 30-plus years as a CPA working for a variety of clients and situations, and it has been my experience with those clients that, as Congress has reduced taxes, as tax bills have gone down, that most employers use that money to…
I rise tonight to take what will be a brief look back at the first 100 or so days of activity in this House of Representatives. While each new session of Congress holds great promise, it is the actions that that Congress takes that…
in a community where overreaching and puffery is a state of art, it is always dangerous to begin to talk about things we have actually accomplished, but I want to join my colleague from Georgia in bragging about what this House has done in…
I appreciate that. I, too, want to add my thanks to the gentleman from Georgia for hosting this hour tonight and for going to the lengths that he has gone to gather us together to talk about this very important issue. Had I realized that…
You cannot talk about eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in Federal spending without kind of putting it in some context. During the 1950s, the Federal income tax amounted to about 2 percent of the family budget. At that point in time…
while we are there, let me mention one other area of cost that waste, fraud, and abuse causes. Every single time we have an incident of waste or fraud, the regulatory agencies in charge put on layer upon layer of additional regulatory…
as I said earlier, the Congress should approach Federal budgeting in a more businesslike manner. I, too, do not understand how underperforming Federal agencies or programs can continue to receive funding year after year without being held…
Well, the good news is, we found a third of them, and there should be processes in place within the Internal Revenue Service to get that money back so that it does, in fact, go either to pay off the debt or to fund other government…
Mr. Speaker, I stand tonight in support of our efforts to aggressively eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in our Federal spending. I am a CPA by profession. I have over 30 years of practice in helping clients and others deal with this issue…
Well, that is right. The earned income tax credit was an attempt by this Congress to credit folks at the lower end of the earning scale for taxes that they would have otherwise owed to the Federal Government. It is a credit that is…
several members have mentioned the inconvenience that many voters may have experienced on voting day by having to stand in line to wait their turn to vote. I want us to put that inconvenience into a proper perspective. It goes without…
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