Burgess Owens

I hope at this point each one of you could sort of sum up and show how all of this ties together, when you give the multibillion dollar tax cuts, and you have to go and cut something out of the budget, and what we have here is a display by…

Mr. Speaker, I submit two articles, one which appeared in the New York Times on February 6 entitled ``Farmers Brace for Stormy Debate over Subsidies'' which contains many of the facts concerning agribusinesses on the dole, and a second…

It is mostly income you do not work for on an hourly basis. Is it presently taxed at the same rate as wages are taxed?

We need a total overhaul of the tax structure. The personal income tax pits one group of Americans against another. Corporate income tax makes a great deal of sense. Taxes which are focused on businesses which are accumulating wealth and…

Will the gentleman slow down for a minute and explain what a CEO is, and let the American people understand what we are talking about in terms of the kinds of salaries or the kind of what they call a total remuneration package we are…

I earn wages, and all of the wage earners of America pay taxes on their wages. Do they pay the same, pay taxes at the same rate that are currently on capital gains?

jobs, the No. 1 concern of the overwhelming majority of Americans. Jobs are the No. 1 concern of the people, but you do not see that same concern reflected here in Washington around the floor of this House. The question that most Americans…

I do not know how these process votes, line item veto, balanced budget amendment, which will not spell out where they are going to go with the balanced budget, some of the amendments that we considered in bills that we considered today…

I will just take 2 minutes to associate myself with the remarks that have been made before. We are all in favor of welfare reform. We are all in favor of reforming any aspect of Government that certainly will save money and improve…

among the organizations that have supported this legislation and feel they are in jeopardy are many organizations that have had bipartisan support in the past. In fact, the Americans With Disabilities Act had strong bipartisan support. Our…

my first amendment excludes from the unfunded mandates legislation any statute or regulation that acts to protect the health of individuals with disabilities. My second amendment applies the same protection for individuals with…

I would like to clarify the fact that this amendment is primarily about health, mandates which affect the health of people with disabilities. But I deliberately included other matters because the gray area there is always there for people…

Capitalism is creative destruction, and all capitalists are proud of that. You destroy what is inefficient in order to lift up what is efficient and keep the economy moving forward in a most efficient and effective way. So, capitalism…

I regret very much it is bad news. We have been receiving a lot of that kind of news lately in New York State and States across the country: The streamlining, these cutbacks and wipeout of total plants in order to move to all places, of…

during the exit polling following the last election, one thing that consistently was revealed was that most voters, an overwhelming majority of voters, are concerned about jobs and employment. A large percentage of Americans are concerned…

proxy voting is as American as apple pie. We have millions and millions of votes cast by proxy all the time. Private industry, which we are so fond of replicating, uses proxy voting all the time. Americans understand proxy voting. They…