Richard K. Armey

I understand the gentleman from Vermont intends to withdraw the amendment after he and I discuss a few points. I wonder if I might... the majority leader will act in all good faith and intention to accomplish precisely what I have said…

Today is the deadline this administration imposed on itself for granting Wisconsin the freedom to reform its welfare system. Two-thirds of the Wisconsin Legislature approved a welfare reform plan that requires work and restores the values…

10 good men and women from this body, 5 from each side of the aisle, have responded to the request of their colleagues and their leadership to serve on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, known as the ethics committee. They…

in 1992 the House Republicans, working with President Bush, put together an excellent health care bill designed to address the questions of portability and affordability for the American people. That bill was not allowed on the floor in…

I just cannot believe the President of the United States did not give consideration to all of these ailments described here on the floor. I cannot believe the President of the United States would have taken such callous disregard when he…

this is an endorsement of the President's stated public intention to give a waiver to the State of Wisconsin due to his enthusiastic support for what it is the State has done. I do not understand why those on the gentleman's side of the…

I reiterate we are acting in response to the President's enthusiastic endorsement of the Wisconsin welfare plan and we want to give the President every opportunity to act in accordance with the very, very public position he has taken…

in light of the President's ringing endorsement just given recently of the Wisconsin welfare plan, we have the relevant committees in discussions with the State and they are preparing a resolution which, frankly, will not be that lengthy…

I take exception to all the arguments that say there is no downside to raising the minimum wage. In addition, of course, to the perverse employment effects on the least advantaged workers in America, there is in fact a cost to be borne in…

Mr. Speaker, I suspect the reason is they read page 27 of Time magazine on February 6, 1995, where the President was quoted as saying that raising the minimum wage is, and I quote, ``the wrong way to raise the incomes of the low wage…

after years of frustration and months of hard work we are here today to do three good things for the American people: to give the President of the United States the long-sought line-item veto authority the American people wish for him to…

Mr. Speaker, when we wrote the Contract With America, we promised the American people a new deal, a change, a real change which would be meaningful in their real lives. We promised innovation and responsiveness. Today we bring forward the…

Mr. Speaker, just for the record, I want to encourage the gentleman to appreciate the fact that we do not intend to see any package in which there will be Medicare cuts.

let us start at the beginning. I love children and I hate smut. I love parents that love their children. I think good parents exercise direction over their children. That is the way it is. When I was a boy, it was Playboy magazines. We did…

Well, Mr. Speaker, there they go again, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle feigning moral outrage about something they think they might have imagined they read accurately reported in the paper. The outrage of the week apparently…

I was reminded, as I watched those brave men all too often falling on the shores of some remote beach, that this is a great Nation and in one very, very special regard, it is the greatest Nation in the history of the world. Because in…

Let me say to all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle how very proud I am of the way we as a body have conducted our affairs. This has been a difficult schedule. It has been extraordinarily demanding on our families, and if I may…

Mr. Chairman, we are not passing this tax relief bill tonight because it is in the Contract With America. It is in the Contract With America because it is needed by the American people. When we wrote the Contract With America, we said we…

Mr. Chairman, I am not a lawyer, but I profoundly believe that the practice of law is an honorable profession and that the vast majority of the people who practice law in America are honorable people. However, it is the excesses so…

Again the gentleman's point is taken. I can only tell the gentleman, we have made it very clear, we have a contract, we feel strongly about our commitment. We are certainly committed to doing a big job, a big change. We know it is hard…

ladies and gentlemen, yes, this has been an important bill. It has been an important debate. It has not been the most important bill, nor the most important debate on this Nation's role in protecting the peace and freedom and dignity of…

Let me just say, it is the resolve of the leadership that we will complete this bill before we leave here. We believe we have every opportunity to do so in such a manner that Members can make a 3 o'clock flight tomorrow afternoon and begin…

Mr. Speaker, we have worked hard since January 4 and we have already accomplished a great deal. House Republicans have applied the laws of the land to a Congress which for years saw fit to exempt itself from what it imposed upon others…

Let me first admire the deftness of the gentleman from California in translating a discussion about geography to one of partisan politics. You are to be admired for your deftness. Let me acknowledge we all are aware, of course, there are…

Of course as the gentleman understands, we have made a commitment to openness. We always understood that that would require more time on this and a variety of other legislative efforts, such as H.R. 5 is proving to be the case. It is our…