It seems possible that we might even soon spend more on interest than our national defense.

Our Federal debt now stands at $22 trillion, more than $22 trillion.

The President's tax plan contains less detail than some supermarket receipts. Moreover, it would explode the deficit while stealing from everyday Americans to give even more to the rich, including the President and his family.

reclaiming my time, I too want my colleagues to think twice before they vote for this amendment. We have got so many battles to fight around here. Mr. Chairman, I say to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Durbin] we have whiskey ads back on…

the gentlewoman was responsible, she and her colleagues were responsible, for reducing the price support level for peanuts from $678 dollars a ton to $610 a ton. That is a substantial, tremendous financial hit on the peanut farmers of…

what the gentlewoman from New York is saying is that if the price of peanuts goes over $245, that the program disappears. Well, who is going to tell the Department of Agriculture what peanuts sell for when they do not monitor that, if they…

Mr. Chairman, I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the gentleman would want to introduce an amendment like this. It is not going to save any money. The Department of Agriculture is perfectly content with operating the program at…

I wanted to humbly say to my good friend, who I admired for his support of the minimum wage, we have a little modest minimum wage here for peanut farmers at 610. I just want to chide the gentleman a little, because I have great respect for…

I wish that there was an accounting mechanism that would allow us to lump all of this together, but there is not. So my colleague from Illinois has a fair shot here at a cost of extension service and a cost of crop insurance. But when we…

Let us not kick our old friend India at this very crucial point in the transition of its government. India is our friend. They have been our friend for a long time and are becoming even closer to America as time progresses. It is important…

it is, in my opinion, a sad day that we have come to this. It is sad that we even have to pass this resolution, 148. I support it. I associate myself with the comments of my colleague, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], and the…

I have been in this body for 24 years. I have heard a lot of stories, but the story today that if you do away with the peanut program you are going to save the American consumer some money is just about as big a pile of bunk as I have ever…

Fidel Castro's dictatorship has just shot down American planes and killed American pilots. Sugar that is not grown under this program is going to be grown in Georgia and is going to find its way into the world market and into this country…

I support Mr. Obey's amendment to restore funding for the Office of Indian Education. Elimination of the funding will mean over a $2 million loss to the State of North Carolina and over $1 million in my own congressional district. There…

I intend to vote for the bill, but it will be a much better bill with your amendment in it. Without it, it is rather mean-spirited as you pointed out. With it in it, it is extremely focusing of the public's mind and the Government's mind…

I would like to ask the freshman Republicans to answer a question for me. Did you all not meet with Edward Teller? Did you not meet with Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and did Edward Teller not tell you freshman…