Blake Moore

In January, our economy nationwide gained 36,000 jobs, hardly anything to brag about. But I can tell you this: this Wisconsin State budget fires 21,600 State employees alone. And when you consider the cuts to municipalities, cities…

You know, you have made a very good point. If you going to downsize and if you are going to make those sacrifices, number one, our workers have said we will negotiate that. We will try to help our State. But if you are going to downsize at…

You know, Congresswoman from Maryland, you talk about trying to pit private sector workers against public workers, I am happy to say that those unions in the private sector in Wisconsin have stood firm with the public sector employees. I…

It is very interesting that you should raise that, because in fact the governor of our State, in his previous capacity as the Milwaukee county executive, hired private security guards for the county jail. And a court just this past January…

The Congressional Black Caucus has always been known as the conscience of the Congress because we understand budgets, and these initiatives to break the collective bargaining agreements are being presented to us in the context of a budget…

Backwards instead of forward, $900 million from our school system, $250 million in State aid for the University of Wisconsin system, $71.6 million from the technical college system, low-income children and families requiring women who…

I would plead with my colleagues to reject the Pence amendment and not to defund Planned Parenthood. And I mean that as a double entendre; to not defund the ability of women to plan parenthood. I know of what the previous speaker, the…

I would argue that this amendment should be made in order because the Pell Grant is the cornerstone of our Federal financial aid programs.

The Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission created an uninhibited voice for special interest spending in our elections and unlimited corporate speech in our public policy debate. Special interests were heard…

David Cutler, a professor of applied economics at Harvard, released a new study on January 7, finding that repealing the health care law would destroy 250,000 to 400,000 jobs annually, and many of these jobs will be women's jobs--CNAs…

I rise as the incoming co-chair of the Congressional Women's Caucus to talk to you a little bit about the impact that repealing this health care law will have on women. As you all may be aware, women are twice as likely to be dependent…

on behalf of his proud neighbors in Kansas' Third Congressional District, and particularly on behalf of the students and teachers at Lakewood Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas, I am honored today to speak in favor of my resolution…

I appreciate the tenor of this debate and the sincere comments by my friend from Texas. I really do appreciate that sincerely. I think we have had a good debate here, and I do not think for a minute that the gentleman is insincere in the…

I do not want to raise taxes. We do not want to raise taxes. What we want to do is get our budget back in balance and eliminate the death tax on the future of our children and grandchildren. My friend from Texas, across the aisle, talks…

Mr. Speaker, this is really a straightforward motion to instruct the tax conferees. The motion calls on Congress to extend middle-class tax relief without increasing the Federal budget deficit. There is broad, bipartisan support in…

Mr. Speaker, we talk so much in this institution about values; and, specifically, we talk about family values. Fiscal responsibility is a family value. It is a family value we should teach our children; it is a family value we should…

Almost 6 years ago, my hometown of Wichita, Kansas, was hit by an F4 tornado which plowed through the suburb of Haysville, killing six, injuring 150, and causing over $140 million in damage. The devastation of this attack motivated me to…

President Reagan's long struggle with Alzheimer's disease has ended, but the legacy of his extraordinary life remains. In 1998, my mother died as a result of the impact of Alzheimer's disease; so I know what families go through during…

I think it is truly unfortunate that it takes a time of crisis or tragedy to bring our Nation together. This week, for example, we have seen and heard from Members of both sides of the aisle a tribute to a great President, Ronald Reagan…

I stood on the House floor on May 20, 2004, and observed a moment of silence to remember the brave men and women who fought and died for our freedom. During this time, images flashed in my mind of the heroic Kansans I visited at the Walter…

Mr. Speaker, we have in this country a $7.1 trillion national debt. We have a projected deficit by the Office of Management and Budget for this year alone of $521 billion. The interest on our national debt, $7.1 trillion, is almost $1…

PAYGO, the PAYGO rule that we are proposing here today, does not stop new tax cuts. All it says is that if we are going to have a new tax cut, we have got to cut spending; and if he talks about discipline, he should practice what he…

Last September, I heard a National Public Radio story about troops coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq. They were being deposited at Baltimore and Atlanta, and from there forced to pay their own way home or stay in Baltimore and Atlanta…

I am from Kansas and I go home virtually every weekend. And when I go home, I talk to my constituents; and they tell me, not in these words, these are mine but I guess it is what I have kind of distilled from their comments to me over the…

it has been 867 days since the administration began implementation of their economic plan for our country. During that time our national debt has increased by $1,159,358,743,968, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt at the Treasury…