we have heard about this average tax cut. I just want to show a chart of what they mean when they talk about ``average.'' This is a $20 billion tax cut that's in the Republican package. It's involving personal exemption phaseout and the…

it is the unfortunate reality that the House of Representatives has seen its share of unethical behavior on the part of public officials elected to represent and serve their constituents. Moreover, this problem is not one confined to…

I rise in support of the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act. I would like to thank Chairman George Miller, Ranking Member McKeon, Chairwoman McCarthy, and Ranking Member Platts for their work on this bill. H.R. 2857…

This amendment is a significant step forward in prevention and intervention efforts to reduce juvenile and gang crime. For far too long, the Congress has focused its crime policy on waiting for crimes to occur before anything is done. This…

I rise in support of H.R. 3992, the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2007. Since the 1960s, State mental health hospitals have increasingly reduced their populations of mentally ill…

I think it is important to speak about what is not in this bill as well as what is in it. This bill is in stark contrast to the bill which passed 2 years ago in that it does not include the provision that would allow employment…

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.

I want to end with this chart that reminds people of the hole that we have dug ourselves into. And when people ask what is the Democratic plan, I just point to the green because that was done without any Republican assistance, and here we…

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.

I want to begin on something we can all agree on and that is what President Bush said in August at an August fund-raiser. He said, ``I ran for office to solve problems, not to pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.'' We…

For every dollar in lost revenue, you stimulate the economy about a dollar seventy?

We are enjoying surpluses in Social Security and Medicare, $165 billion projected next year in surpluses. But by 2017, 2018, that surplus is going to end. The baby boomers are going to retire, and instead of enjoying a big fat surplus, in…

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…

I would want to point out as challenging as this chart looks, we are running up a little surplus, but we will shortly be into great deficit. And to put some of these other numbers into perspective, as we indicated, in 2001 we passed a tax…

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…

We write to strongly urge your support for the Sessions-Kennedy-Wolf-Scott Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003, H.R. 1707. Those of us who have signed this letter have many disagreements on public policy matters, including a variety of…

One is you could serve more children if you allow people to discriminate. That is not true. You will serve more people if you put more money into the Head Start program. There are plenty of sponsors who are willing to provide services…

I rise in support of the Head Start program but in opposition to the Republican Head Start bill. In 2002, the Head Start program served nearly 1 million children, over 62,000 infants and toddlers in early Head Start. Unfortunately…

When we spend without paying for it, we run up debt and you have to pay interest on the national debt. This is a family of four's portion of interest on the national debt. It is going up year after year after year. When President Clinton…

So if we focus all of our tax relief on that, it would not surprise anybody that it would not be broadly based. It would just be aimed at the 1 or 2 percent. So it does not make much sense to complain that if we are trying to give tax…

You wonder how you could pay the Social Security challenge that is shown on this chart, because instead of a nice surplus that we have been spending, we are going to have to actually come up with even more money. At the same time, the…

We just want to remind people who asked what our plan is, our plan is the green. If we had our ways, we would be running up back into surplus with the stock market high, unemployment low. This is what we would do if we had the choice…

We have legislation pending in this body that would do that. Interestingly enough, that tax cut would be paid for under the standard that we had adopted helping to create the green, that if you pass a tax cut it ought to be paid for with…

Now, we had the previous speaker before our Special Order suggest that it was wrong to give income tax relief for those who do not pay income tax. There are some that have lower income that do not pay income taxes, but I was wondering if…

First of all, I think we ought to suggest that if we are this far in the red already, we ought to be talking about something other than additional tax cuts. We use the adage around here that if we find ourselves in a hole, the first thing…