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Bobby Scott is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights throughout his tenure in Congress. Scott has been an advocate for expanding access to affordable healthcare and has worked on legislation aimed at improving education and job training programs.
This bill is narrowly drawn and is different from the other bills because victims of negligence will have recourse. It is similar to Good Samaritan State laws that immunize volunteers but fails to immunize them from automobile accidents…
Mr. Speaker, unlike many of the others, this bill is narrowly drawn, and it is my understanding, and my colleague from Virginia, I think, can correct me if I am wrong, but the usual problem we have in this case is you have an injured party…
However, I disagree with the use of the mandatory minimums. With mandatory minimums, low level offenders frequently get too much time. The more serious violators often get too little time. That is why we have the Sentencing Commission…
I just think this is an unfortunate situation to have 5 minutes to debate this important issue. The question is, who will take the risk? If the rental car agency is not going to provide the insurance for the drivers, who will? Are they…
When we had PAYGO with the fiscal discipline, wherein if you increased the spending, you had to pay for it, or if you cut a tax, you had to pay for that, what color is that on the chart?
I notice some of the gentleman's numbers are slightly different than the numbers I was using. I think we need to explain that these numbers are with the unified budget. The ones I was using were what are called on-budget, which means that…
Fifty to $75,000: $132. Now there are a lot of different variations in that, depending on the child tax credit. If you have a lot of children, you may get more tax credit. If you are single, you may not get anything at all. On average, 50…
This is if you are making 50 to $75,000, you are on average, the average income group, $132. Below that you hardly need any ink to draw the bar. However, if you are making more than $1 million, you explode way off the chart.
When you have a transportation-created job, where does that work take place? That work takes place right here in America, in the heartlands, in the rural, in the urban areas of our cities and States; and this is why, if the President is…
No President has left office in over 50 years with fewer jobs than they started off with until this administration. We are down 3 million jobs; and if you are interested in jobs, remember that in just a few years we will be spending $300…
The money we get from the individual income tax totals less than $800 billion. We have a $750 billion deterioration in this budget in just 3 years. And so whatever you call it, whatever label you put on it, look at the chart. This is…
The idea that if we do nothing, that that is a tax increase. The important thing is not to worry about what the label is. The important thing is to look at this chart. The policies of this administration which have been pretty much adopted…
Combined. Homeland Security, Education, Transportation, Department of Labor, Department of State, add them all up, it does not come to $166 billion; 7.4, 166. How much do you have to spend before someone suggests that the spending is out…
Just so we know what we are talking about, I would like to know whether or not if the bill passes in its present form, you can take Federal money and have a policy of not hiring Catholics and Jews; if it passes in its present form with the…
They had to spend the Social Security and Medicare surplus before they got to the $477 billion that the gentleman mentioned as a unified deficit. Less than $800 billion in individual income tax. That includes everybody.
Reclaiming my time, so that someone who owes $2 million in debt can pay $10,000 and can never pay it will be in economic slavery because every dime they make over food and rent will go into the fund to help pay the $10,000.
They can pay $10,000 on a $2 million debt. The fact is they can never pay off the debt. They will be denied relief under the bill. Is that right?
I said that somebody who can pay off $10,000 but can never pay off the $2 million, are they denied relief under this bill?
If the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Cannon) suggested that what I said was not accurate, I ask what did I say that was not accurate?
Mr. Chairman, if this bill passes, we will very seriously jeopardize the viability of the Prison Industry programs that will reduce the number of prison jobs. It will actually reduce the number of business opportunities because right now…
The projection was by 2011 and 2013, we would have paid off the entire national debt and had no interest on the national debt to pay year after year.
They borrow the Social Security surplus and the Medicare surplus. And depending on which projections are used, they are spending substantially more money than that every year, creating huge deficits and a $9 trillion turnaround, paying off…
When you fund the tax cuts with borrowed money, you have to pay interest on the national debt which is a drag to the economy.
By that the gentleman means for every dollar in lost revenue, what effect does that have on the GDP, and whether or not you actually stimulated the economy, and what did you say for, if you extend unemployment compensation, for those that…
For every dollar in lost revenue, you stimulate the economy about a dollar seventy?
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