William Orton

We did not get any money to build a road to a ski resort in Utah as they did in Pennsylvania.

The gentleman really raises the crux of this whole debate. If, in fact, this body believes that we should go out and expand the concept, create more regional commissions, fund it with Federal dollars, and put the money into those regional…

It is questionable whether the State benefits from it, but the State does receive money to build it, yes.

I did not make an allegation that they called the mayor of Provo, UT. If you will read the Record, it is clear what I said, and the information came from various lobbying sources who lobbied this city in behalf of a mayor in my district…

Mr. Chairman, I am a Member who has supported the line-item veto since before being elected to Congress. This is not a partisan issue, and the line-item veto did not begin with the Contract With America. Many Members on both sides of the…

It is my time--which runs parallel to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and runs a four-lane highway through a town of 1,700 people; is that from contract authority? Was that from the general formula funding that the State determined? Or where…

Mr. Chairman, I am sure my friend and colleague would not want to misspeak or misrepresent the facts. In fact, discretionary spending for transportation programs includes the contract authority spending. It does come under the 602(b)…

I rise today to discuss the balanced budget amendment, which will be coming up later this week and possibly continuing into next week. It is a very critical issue which we will be facing in the Congress, and I feel it important that we…

today I am pleased to vote in favor of H.R. 4277, a bill to create an independent Social Security Administration. The Social Security system plays a critical role in providing economic security for millions of elderly Americans struggling…

I rise in support of the Machtley-Orton amendment to H.R. 6. As the gentleman has indicated, this amendment would restore a portion of the impact aid funding for students whose parents are civilian employees of the Defense Department and…

I will just say that, in closing, impact aid is the only source of revenue that the school districts have in order to make up for this loss, and unless schools have some opportunity to expand their tax base, we could see over 2,100 schools…

I rise in support of House Joint Resolution 103, the balanced budget amendment. I support the basic concept of balanced budgets. My record is clear on that both in votes here in the House and in the Budget Committee. The debate here today…