Richard K. Armey

Today is April 15. Millions of Americans will finish their day today at around midnight, parked in front of a post office someplace, trying to make the final installment on the over $200 billion they will spend this year just complying…

I do not suppose it will come as any big surprise to the American people that whenever they turn their eyes towards Washington, they will always find that in this town there is always a certain class of people that have this compelling…

Mr. Speaker, the previous speaker from the Democrat side of the aisle was most unsettling. The rules of discourse that we follow in this House, the protocols that we try to honor for one another in this House, are commonly understood that…

I will just say that I appreciate these numbers. I studied them. While on the surface our numbers may seem smaller than the President's, I take greater confidence in our budget committee's numbers because they are real.

let me just say I am proud of what the Congress is doing this week. Like the balanced budget agreement, like the first tax cuts in 16 years, like the real welfare reform, like all the other elements in the contract with America, we are…

bless the hearts of kids. I love listening to the young people today. They are so good. They are paying these taxes for grandma and grandpa's retirement. They know that is an obligation and responsibility. They are happy to fulfill it. It…

the Clinton administration announced once that it was committed to reinventing government. But according to a new Brookings Institute study released yesterday, it sounds like the administration is just reinventing job titles. Yesterday the…

No Nation has been so blessed as America in the 1990s. We enjoy a prosperity that our parents and our grandparents could not even imagine. Each day we invent wonderful new things to make life easier and more interesting. Our scientists are…

I believe the Nation has fully well understood the schedule that was prepared for this week and announced for this week. The President certainly must have known about this. The President must have weighed that. Indeed, I think, by press…

Mr. Speaker, just this morning in the Oval Office of the White House, the President of the United States was asked with respect to the engagement of American military in Iraq. I quote: ``Would it undercut your authority if the House opens…

Aside from reversing our military's decline, boasting our missile defense efforts, directing scarce education dollars to the classroom, this bill gives us a more responsible international economic policy by reforming the IMF. When the…

So perhaps some rest and relaxation this evening, some satisfaction, I might say, of knowing that we have done good work on behalf of the American people to preserve the integrity of this surplus so that next year we can look at the manner…

let me finish with this point. So many times we have said around here that the idea is bigger than the man. Joe White once again has shown us the idea is never bigger than the child.

I am honored today to have my good friends the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Ryun) and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Blunt) join me in presenting the Freedom Works Award to Joe White, founder of Kids Across America. I would like to bring…

I think of it as the most unique institution of freedom in the history of the world, soon fall in love with this institution. I think Jerry Solomon has clearly done that, and I tell people often, and I think, Jerry, you, must, too, say I…

today the President called for a further expansion of the International Monetary Fund. He repeated the audacious request that Congress provide $18 billion to the IMF with no conditions and without first requiring IMF reform. It is time for…

I rise in support of the Scarborough amendment to curtail funding for Executive Order 13083, President Clinton's efforts to grab power from the states in the name of "federalism." Ronald Reagan had it right. In 1987, President Reagan…

Most people of America did not know Officer Gibson and they did not know Officer Chestnut, but they know what they did here, and now most people in America honor and respect and really know these officers. Every 48 hours in this country…

I share the gentleman's commitment to completing this work before we leave for the August recess. That is a commitment that will, in fact, be met. In that regard, let me say we do hope for and will be looking for opportunities in addition…

The American people celebrate their good schools, and they worry about the schools that are not performing on behalf of the children. The American people take the education of their children very, very seriously. Where they can, when they…

I believe that it was not very many years ago when we could stand up proudly in this Nation and say that. I believe when I was a child going through public schools that this Nation could stand up and say before the world, we have the best…

The current Tax Code is an abomination to the human spirit, it goes against everything that we think is important, necessary, beneficial, useful and healthy in the life of our family or our business, and we cannot and will not suffer it…

this debate has been a good debate and I want to thank the committee for bringing it to the floor. The debate is about H. Con. Res. 285, expressing the sense of Congress that the President of the United States should reconsider his…

Mr. Speaker, a very good friend of mine, Thomas Soul, once wrote a book entitled ``Conflict of Visions.'' It was a good book, and I would commend it to all of us. But what we are doing here today with this rule is we are setting up an…

I want to first compliment my friend, the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Istook). The gentleman has spent so many long hours, so many days working on this, and working with so many people, constitutional scholars and others. I want to also…