Richard K. Armey

this morning I mispronounced the name of my friend and colleague, the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Frank], in a way that sounds like a slur. Let me make this absolutely clear. The media and others are reporting this as if it were…

As the gentleman may recall from his own experience as being the majority leader, the press often knows better than we. I will check with my sources for the press and try to confirm any story you have read. To my knowledge, there is no…

this is a gratifying day for America, a day of hope and promise for our country. And so it is with a profound sense of honor that I offer, on behalf of the Republican Members of the House, this proposed set of rules for the 104th Congress…

I repeat, we must restore their faith in this historic and honorable institution. I hope today will set a standard for a more cooperative, more idea-driven process in which our first and highest consideration is always the people's…

Mr. Speaker, several months ago, while presenting the President's health care plan in New York City, the First Lady made a comment to the effect that the American people had to learn to accept their responsibilities. Mr. Speaker, I have…

the White House says that the President's original explanation of the First Lady's dealings in the futures market are no longer operative. On April 15 Americans will learn that the administration has no more credibility on retroactive…

the 1994 baseball season is hardly a week old and already the best screwball pitch of the year has been thrown in baseball stadiums across the country. The Democrat Party's National Campaign Committee has staged a demonstration of what…

we learn in today's papers that Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman was misleading Congress when he said his meeting with White House officials was nothing more than a "heads up." Mr. Altman's Monday letter to the chairman of the Senate…

I continue to oppose this legislation. Goals 2000, which I call bureaucracy 2000, was a bad bill when it went into conference, and it is still a bad bill. Faced with a clear choice between bureaucratic control and parental freedom, the…

I would like to congratulate the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich] and the other Republicans on the Committee on the Budget for assembling the best budget I have seen in my 9 years in Washington. This Kasich budget is much more than a…

the gentlewoman from New York should realize that in her district, the 28th District of New York, the Kasich budget promises $56.5 million of family tax relief. I am sure her families will find that nothing to sneeze at. Mr. Chairman, I…

My response to the gentleman is that redundancy in defense of freedom is a virtue, and I do not mind committing that redundancy just for further assurance.

Mr. Chairman, let me say very quickly that I do appreciate the point just made by the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Kildee], and that is why in fact we have sought counsel from and gotten an approval of support for our amendment from the…

I am confident, this note here from the Catholic Conference reaffirms my confidence. I will be in conference to look after the concerns of the other private schools and the home schoolers. I don't believe there is a reason for us to be…

Mr. Chairman, the home schoolers have been taken care of to the satisfaction of the chairman of the committee. They have not, with the passage of his amendment, been taken care of to my satisfaction. I will only be satisfied that there is…