Members of the House, as we listen to the rhetoric and the misinformation and the scare tactics that are going to be on this floor today, I think it is important to remind people that it was the Democrats who cut Social Security benefits…

I think we have proof in 1990 and 1993 where there was a rush to raise taxes that the American people want this body unified, the House of Representatives to act responsibly, and embrace tax limitation, a balanced budget amendment.

the families in my home area, Suffolk County, must live within their means and spend only what they take in. They have to live on a balanced family budget, and in the seven towns and the villages and the school districts, they also must…

And yet what we are establishing here is that the Federal Government in the greatest Nation on this earth has failed to balance its budget for over 30 years?

I would say that it is startling to me to listen to this experiment that they had in Arizona, if you will, the notion that they went forward and did the responsible thing, but they did not hold the taxes, and the people of Arizona…

as I venture around eastern Long Island, where I am from, and talk to small business men and women and average families on my weekend visits home, they tell me increasingly that they do not understand a Washington that feels this…

These figures are getting bleaker. Is there any frame of reference that there is a local government that perhaps has gone 30 years or a school district that has gone 30 years without balancing its budget or a State government that…

I would ask the gentlewoman, as we sit here in the bastion of Federal spending, Washington, DC, would the gentlewoman care to venture, based on her conversations with the folks back home, about what their feelings are about putting a tax…

My concern is that of course in November, the American people took dramatic action and they allowed the Republicans to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. I think the effort here obviously was that…