Richard K. Armey

I have to say, Mr. Speaker, I have heard a little rhetoric this morning that is a little hotter than is necessary and, frankly, quite inaccurate and unfair. "Mean-spirited" I think is a little harsh. The agriculture community came to us…

Of course we are all concerned about getting this matter resolved as soon as possible on behalf of the concerns we had among our American farmers. We are working on that, and I can say that it is my hope that we may be able to do it…

The point is we have long since now passed the point at which we can be casual about this. We are not talking about campaign finance violations. We are not talking about small things. We have very big questions here and very grave…

Tomorrow the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Commerce will hold a hearing on my bill, the Auto Choice Reform Act, which will cut auto insurance premiums by 24 percent and save American drivers $193…

If the gentleman is still talking about the consideration of honest and fair elections, certainly, I have no doubt, we will get beyond the rule and into the bill. I simply cannot give my colleague any assurance about how far we will get…

Next week is, of course, a week where we have a great deal of work that is pending before the Nation and very important work. There is no doubt we will get to campaign finance reform. And this is, of course, a very big, broad-based debate…

I said there were two great beneficiaries of school choice. The first institutional beneficiary is public schools, because it is because of school choice that public schools find the incentive to improve themselves. We know that works. We…

Mr. Speaker, what this legislation does is provide $7 million worth of additional funding to the Washington, D.C. School District specifically for the assistance of low-income families in the District, that they might have greater ability…

This is not about me, and, in all due respect, it is not about the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia. It is about the children. Quite frankly, we have 8,000 of those children and their parents that have said this is a good deal. We…

I have here a book that I prepared in anticipation of this discussion. I have in this book the 20 fallacies that are argued in opposition to the provision of these scholarship opportunities for these children. Let me begin by extending my…

Tomorrow we will take up a bill on this floor that would allow $7 million worth of new money introduced in the D.C. school system for the purpose of providing scholarships to 2,000 low-income families for their children, 2,000…

Mr. Speaker, what is this IMF that wants $18 billion of our money? Where did they come from and what do they do? I am shocked and appalled at how little we know about the IMF. We know a little bit about its history, but we do not know a…

we are perfectly prepared to continue any further consideration of this subject as the year passes by. But certainly we feel we have identified, through the efforts of the committee on a bipartisan working basis, the key crucial issues…

They are all bills that have been worked on in the House by a number of people from both sides of the aisle. They have all been under consideration in the Committee on House Oversight, and we are of course confident that Members from both…

I appreciate my colleagues that will be joining me this evening. It seems like every now and then, once perhaps in every lifetime, there is a sense of a movement on land, a movement of a Nation in search for things of greater meaning and…

Mr. Speaker, here we are. We have had a pretty decent, as we like to say, truck driver's review of a lot of the things very important to the American people. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) came in earlier and talked about the…

Tomorrow the Committee on Education and the Workforce subcommittee under the direction of the gentleman from California (Mr. Riggs) is going to hold a special hearing on the question of school choice options for the children of D.C. As we…

I was reading about the stay of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sam Johnson) in North Vietnam and thinking about it as he and I have talked about it and thinking about others that stayed there, and we are going to hear all the details so…

I must say that during the 1970s, I even thought maybe I would move to another country just to find more freedom, and when Ronald Reagan came on the scene, I drew hope, I drew from him encouragement. I dared again to believe in America and…

Washington, D.C., has some very, very good schools, has some exceptionally good public schools, and it has some exceptionally good private schools. Unfortunately, the city also has some exceptionally bad schools where we have too many…

Ed Nichols, I remember, if I may, watching the House of Representatives back in 1982 and 1983, before I even thought of being a Member. I was always so impressed with the opening of the House, even as a citizen, having never in my life…

It is my belief at this point to continue to talk to all the people related to these conferences on spending bills that we can complete that work by sometime next weekend. I see no reason to depart from that belief. But I must advise the…

I am honored today to present the Freedom Works Award to Martha Williamson, executive producer of CBS networks television show "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land." Martha Williamson takes her responsibility as a television producer…

A famous philosopher once said that only the educated are free. Our system today is doing a very poor job of promoting that freedom. I believe that our education system fails because it lacks accountability and subverts responsibility…

It is precisely because we believe that the competition that comes with choice and the involvement of parents holding schools accountable is so critical that we believe that the public schools institutionally will be the first, best…