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Mr. Speaker, as I said several times before, the problem with these continuing resolutions is not necessarily the time that is being taken. There have been other Congresses that have not finished their work on time either. But the question…
Mr. Speaker, what I say is meant in no way to criticize the gentleman from Florida, because he has been one of the few realistic voices on the other side of the aisle trying to point out what the realities are. But the fact is, this is…
I am sorry to say that this conference report demonstrates that people who too frequently promise regular order should be regarded in the same way that Blaze Starr regarded men who used the phrase ``trust me.'' The process by which this…
I do not need any lectures from anybody about the dangers of drunk driving. When I was in junior high school, I was knocked off my bicycle by a truck driver who had spent 4 hours in a tavern rather than doing what he was supposed to be…
Mr. Speaker, the problem we face, as was described by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), is that we essentially have no idea what the limits are. We had a phony limit that was produced in the original budget resolution in the spring…
Mr. Speaker, as the Members of this House know, it is my view that many of the appropriation bills which passed this House were pretty pitiful. This is not one of them. This is one of those times when the House has been able to come…
what we hear today is that there are four oil-producing coastal States who this year get $100 million and who under CARA want to get $1 billion, and they are unhappy because we only gave them $400 million. That is the truth. We spread the…
Mr. Speaker, again, there is nothing new with what we are doing here today. We have in the past had Congresses that have failed to get their appropriations work done on time and so they have required continuing resolutions; that is not the…
In 1979, the last year of the Carter administration, agriculture programs cost the taxpayer less than $4 billion in direct payments to farmers and prices paid to farmers at the marketplace were considerably higher than they are today. This…
Mr. Speaker, what I want to say is directed to one simple question: How much self-respect does each and every individual Member of this body possess? Does every one of the 435 Members who belongs to this body believe that they have a right…
God help us all if that were to happen. Let me simply say, Mr. Speaker, you know, the President has not vetoed any of these bills. The last time I looked, our Republican friends were in control of both Houses; and yet they have been able…
The issue is not what has happened in the past; the issue is what ought to happen now. I am amused by our friends on the other side of the aisle who claim that all of a sudden the Republicans are the new-found friend of education. Over the…
I really do believe that Members need to understand that the percentage chance we have of actually having an agreed bill that is not going to be vetoed, ready for the House to vote on by tomorrow is about 3 percent. I would note, for…
let me simply ask of the distinguished majority leader. Obviously all of us want to get rid of as many appropriation bills as we can. We are going to have enough real arguments on the bills where we have real differences that we ought not…
I would point out the Republican chairman of the authorizing committee has introduced his own school construction program which at least matches the President's in size. Why can we not simply fund it, since apparently the need is…
Mr. Speaker, no one is against districts having flexibility, but I would point out that under Title VI, which they want to expend without any strings whatsoever, audits discovered that one State used those funds to purchase an automobile…
The position of the majority party has been that while there is $28 billion in money on the table to allocate under their budget proposal, that not one additional dime should go to education. That is crazy.
I do not particularly enjoy this process, but I do not think we can sit by while the guns are being fired by only one side on an issue as important as education, for instance. I am also disappointed, frankly, because I understood that the…
Mr. Speaker, the gentleman just said that obviously all of us on the House floor agree with the first part of the motion that asks the conferees to fund education at the highest possible level. But, in fact, the conferees yesterday…
I frankly am of a split mind on this issue. I am fairly old fashioned, and I come from a part of the country where these kinds of subjects are not discussed much in public, and I frankly get uneasy when I walk into a lot of places and see…
I personally am going to vote ``present.'' As some Members have noticed from time to time, I on numerous occasions have voted ``present'' as a matter of protest in order to suggest that the House is dealing with an issue which I believe…
let me make clear, that is an issue, because the administration indicates that if that tax is to be considered, and it ought to be considered in conjunction with other changes in the tax law which the administration also wants, not…
the article points out that tax fraud is a ticking time bomb in this country, probably approaching up to $300 billion in lost revenue. It tells the story of one family worth billions of dollars, one family that holds, in art collections…
I would point out I wrote dissenting views to the Department of Defense bill that the majority brought to this House. That bill is $19 billion over last year and it is $5.1 billion above the President's request. Not with my vote, but with…
I find it interesting that a party which professes to be so concerned with budget stringency will ask us to bring a bill to the floor before we even know by how much it exceeds the budget under which we are supposed to operate. My…
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