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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.
Mr. Chairman, this provides a GAO study of the issue. This amendment is being presented jointly with Rep. Wu. We all agree that the cloning technology we are aware of today should not be used for human reproductive purposes. Yet, we all…
I think it is helpful just to use the charts because the charts tell the story better than anything else. I mean, we have all this rhetoric about how good the economy is, how good this is, and whether or not there is going to be a deficit…
We were about to pay off the entire national debt, so there would have been no interest on the national debt. Even if you do not pay off any of the debt, you still have to pay the interest. These are big numbers. Let us divide it and see…
now we turn over a surplus to President Bush and he has made no tough choices. He has cut taxes and increased spending. Have they recommended any tough choices?
Does the gentleman know who said the budget deficit is a stealth tax that pushes up interest rates and costs the typical family $36,000 on an average home mortgage, $1,400 on an ordinary student loan and $700 on a car loan?
The gentleman indicated that deficits reduce the size of government. Is this budget coming in not presented to us larger than the one before? So it does not reduce the size of government. When we cut all these taxes and reduce revenue, we…
after the President's budget was adopted, the economy kept going down and down. And so some of this recalculation is an acknowledgment that the President's budget had caused the economy to tank, and they had to recalculate it based on the…
When we consider that we are spending the entire surplus, to continue spending at that rate, we will not have that surplus in 2017. So we are going to have to figure out, have some plan to figure out how to pay that. Are we going to raise…
And we made those tough choices without any Republican help, House or Senate. And does the gentleman remember what they did in the next election? When they demagogued that vote, said we made the tough choices, criticized those choices, and…
on August 6, 1993, Petersburg, VA, the second most fiscally stressed city in the State, was hit by a series of tornadoes. Two sections of the city critical to its economy were the hardest hit, Old Towne and Pocahontas Island. The city had…
on the issue of crime, I feel compelled to ask my colleagues whether our intent is to play politics or substantively and responsibly address the issue. From the rhetoric I have heard in recent days, it seems that many of my fellow Members…
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