Richard K. Armey

I chuckle at what I am hearing here today. Actually I am amazed. I am hearing all these reasons why we should not give people tax relief. Have we ever before heard so many reasons for not doing the right thing? "It's too big." "It's too…

If I may, Mr. Speaker, let me just say the gentleman from Michigan makes a good point. I understand that rumors can be upsetting and I regret that. But I still, nevertheless, in light of the rumor, the gentleman is, on behalf of his party…

let me open my remarks by thanking the Committee on the Judiciary for bringing this bill to the floor early. I must say, Mr. Chairman, from me personally, I take it as a matter of enormous pride that this is the first significant bill we…

I hope the gentlemen on his side of the aisle and my side of the aisle that feel so strongly in terms of this operational management model will abide with us in our interest of signaling to the American people on this tax reduction, this…

let me say that when I picked up my paper last Monday and read the news of Joe Moakley's illness, it made me extremely sad; and I want to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern) for calling to my attention this opportunity we…

Every now and then I think in our lives we ought to take time. We ought to just pause and reflect about the good people we are privileged to know, the good people with whom we are privileged to work. In my life, in all the years, either in…

This bill, Mr. Speaker, provides $245 billion in tax relief over the next 10 years, a figure that I personally agreed to with the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the President. That would be $11.5 billion impacting the first year…

Through the decade of the 1980s. This incidentally is labeled by the Vice President and his friends as ``the decade of greed,'' where also incidentally you had charitable giving not only double but charitable giving to faith-based…

Yes, it should. Here is another case in point. The gentleman from California will recognize this distinguished professor from Stanford University, Dr. John Cogan. The Vice President says his plan would cost $200 billion over 10 years. We…

I always have to stop and ask myself, can that fellow really be trusted with words and numbers? One of the things the Vice President made a big point of the other night was that if you elect me, we will never, ever, ever touch your Social…

For every dollar by which he would cut taxes... he would raise government spending by $6.75. His spending spree would not stop there. His plan would also spend from the Social Security trust fund. We stopped the raid on Social Security…

I think we in America ought to recognize our heroes, we ought to recognize the people that help this Nation prosper and do well. There is no doubt in my mind that this Nation owes a debt of gratitude to Bill and Al. Bill and Al can…

I want to talk about this 1 percent. I am getting tired of hearing it. When we tried to do the $500 per child tax credit, they said that is for the top 1 percent richest people of America. Give me a break on that. I raised five children. I…

I must say, if the gentleman from Texas will continue to yield to us, my colleague says the Vice President today embraces the welfare reform and he embraces the budget agreement we reached in 1997.

The fact of the matter is part of the story that the Vice President does not tell us is that he did in fact vote in 1993 for President Clinton's budget, that budget that increased taxes, a larger increase in taxes than any other time in…

as a result of decades of social engineering, the United States Tax Code has evolved into a complex maze of deductions, credits, exemptions, and special preferences under which taxpayers with same incomes can pay vastly different amounts…

The basic question we are asking here is how do we as a Nation preserve, utilize, conserve, and develop our resources to achieve the wealth of a Nation in the lives of our children. It seems to me it takes a balanced and informed…

One of the things I think we should remember, today in America right now 70 percent of our seniors have already gone into the private markets and purchased prescription drug coverage. They have shopped around. They have checked out what is…

let me just say what the gentleman's charts shows is that the pundits are right, if Governor Bush is President during the worst of time, we might lose the surplus, but it also shows that if Vice President Gore is President during the best…

I would like to make this observation: Listening to the gentlewoman from North Carolina, I am reminded it takes leadership, and it takes cooperation, to really get big jobs done in government. People must work together. I have to say I am…

Nine significant agencies, including the Treasury Department which I will bet has in its employ a more than generous number of CPAs and they cannot be audited. So what happens, it seems, is that when people come to Washington, they cannot…

Certainly during that period of time we will have a broad overview, but at this point I would like to just focus very narrowly on one aspect of the Vice President's plan. My colleagues may recall, Mr. Speaker, that the Vice President was…

Does the gentleman mean the Department of Education incorrectly printed financial aid forms for the students wishing to apply for college to learn how they might correctly use the English language?

I would like to look at that graph. You notice in this graph on the Bush proposal that Governor Bush proposes 29 cents out of that dollar for tax relief. And I notice that you see Vice President Gore is proposing 7 cents.

Vice President Al Gore, who once claimed he invented the Internet, now has an equally incredible claim, that he will get rid of the marriage penalty. The marriage penalty forces married couples to pay higher taxes than they would if they…