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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.
When you're talking about the budget, there are two sides of the ledger. If you spend more, you should tax more. If you have less in taxes, you have to have less in spending. That's how you balance the budget. One of the problems we've had…
You're exactly right. It probably would not result in any change in the withholding because of that little bit of money, and they would have all of the tax cuts up to the first $250,000, and they would pay a slightly additional tax on the…
On behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, we would like to discuss the fiscal cliff and our position on the ongoing negotiations. We didn't get here, Madam Speaker, by accident. I was elected in 1992. In the 1993 budget, we addressed…
And that is exactly what we did. Much has been made of the $716 billion that was saved in Medicare. The corporate subsidies was part of it, efficiencies were part of it, but not a dime in benefits was adversely affected. In doing that, we…
Well, the Medicare Advantage gives you slightly enhanced benefits under Medicare, and it was provided by Medicare. And what the private sector says is: we could provide those same services for a lower cost; and if you let us get in at 95…
Just in closing, the gentlelady pointed out that bad things happen if we go over the cliff. Bad things are going to happen if we get serious about deficit reduction. The only way you can deal with deficit reduction is to raise somebody's…
There's a provision in the prescriptive drug benefit that passed about a decade ago that prohibits HHS from negotiating drug prices with pharmaceuticals. Now, the VA can negotiate prices; Medicaid can negotiate prices. But somehow…
Well, one of the things that ObamaCare did was to provide, for those on Medicare, you get your annual checkups with no copay and cancer screening, no copays and deductibles. We're closing the doughnut hole. Under the Romney plan, because…
About $500 a month more for health care than they're paying now. That was the plan.
I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlelady from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee.
That's exactly the problem. When you start talking about reducing the size of government with unspecified cuts or revenue increases, not rate increases but revenue increases, whatever that means, without specifying, we don't even know…
They would get a tax cut on their income up to $250,000. Their income over $250,000, they would not enjoy the Bush-era tax cuts. They would be paying the same taxes they were paying when the stock market was--during the Clinton…
People talk about increasing the age of Social Security or the cost-of-living increase. The first question is whether or not you're going to cut Social Security. And then if you decide to cut Social Security, there are different ways of…
So it is one of the most effective things. If you put $1 into unemployment compensation, economic activity is about $1.55. If you give a $1 tax cut on dividends, the economic activity is about 15 cents because the people getting that…
It is generally the practice that we would extend emergency unemployment compensation for longer than normal, which is every time the rate gets high and when it's an emergency, so it's not offset. That is the usual situation. The problem…
Just to thank the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands, Dr. Christensen, and the leadership of the Judiciary Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) and the gentleman from Michigan, the ranking member, Mr. Conyers, for bringing this…
To thank the gentleman from American Samoa, the leadership of the Judiciary Committee, and my friend from North Carolina (Mr. Coble) for bringing this measure to the floor. I urge my colleagues to support the bill. I yield back the balance…
I would like to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands, Dr. Christensen.
I yield myself such time as I may consume. First, Mr. Speaker, I would like to associate myself with the kind remarks about the gentlelady from California. She has had an excellent career in Congress, and has elected not to return. We will…
I consider these new State laws, many of them, a direct threat to our democratic process and the very fabric of our Nation.
We have not yet held a single hearing in the Committee to address the flood of weapons trafficking across our borders.
I think that it is incumbent on all of to us try to apply the same standards to a Republican President or a Democratic President.
I oppose this rule because it does not allow consideration of amendments to the FISA bill that would strengthen the underlying bill by providing for greater accountability to the public of an otherwise wholly secretive process. Operations …
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