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Mr. Speaker, the Republican drug bill is a cruel hoax and an empty promise to our senior citizens. We are going to end up passing their bill today, and we are going to go home for the 4th of July break. I challenge the senior citizens in…
Mr. Speaker, I am really tickled pink to have the opportunity to come down here and talk about this repeal of the phone tax. As was indicated, this repeal will cost some $20 billion to the treasury, or putting it another way, Americans…
As I looked over the history of this tax, I thought I read that after the Spanish-American War this tax was repealed, and then at the start of World War I it was put back on; repealed after World War I; then it was put back on for World…
No. The point being that it is not 102 years old and around since the Spanish-American War. It was repealed after that war in 1902. So the gentleman is inaccurate on that point.
Mr. Chairman, over the last couple hours we are told about slave labor, child labor, human rights abuses, forced abortion in China. So one could ask, well, why are we here giving permanent trade status to China? What is this issue all…
Mr. Speaker, I agree with everything the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kasich) has just said. We have to rethink, relook and revise our current Tax Code. But we have not done that yet. And for us to put the cart before the horse, to repeal the…
I think we have had what I would call a spirited debate today, but one has to wonder why this proposal comes up every April. Congress comes in session in January. We stay around until October. Why do we not have a vote on this particular…
today's mass at St. Peter's will be hosted by the Republican Conference. The homily will be given by the House Chaplain and he will speak in support of the H.R. 4199, to abolish the Tax Code by the year 2004. Does that sound ridiculous to…
we have a sad situation in this country where American citizens are renouncing their citizenship, taking their wealth to foreign countries in a very, very obvious attempt to avoid any taxation. If, in fact, this constitutional amendment…
I rise in opposition to Joint Resolution 94. This is the fifth time the House has taken up this particular constitutional amendment. It seems that since the Republicans have taken over control of the House, we have had over 100…
We have got to take this seriously, do we not? These guys really worry about somehow the money getting away from us, that it is somehow flowing out. They have been in control for 5 years. When they came in, they passed a House rule that…
Mr. Speaker, I have been in Congress a couple of years now, and I fought like the devil to get on the Committee on Ways and Means because I wanted to be in a position so I could hopefully shape the tax laws of this country. The committee…
the question I was going to ask of my colleague from the Republican side of the aisle was in here is a provision to reinstate the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund excise tax. Evidently he is for oil spills. We want to clean them up. There is…
I join with all of you in welcoming our new Chaplain, Father Coughlin, to the House of Representatives. What I would like to do is spend a few moments not reopening the wounds of this, what I would term a sorry chapter in the House of…
for the last 3 hours we have been extolling the virtues of eliminating the marriage tax penalty. The most amazing part of the debate is, we all agree. I agree with the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson). In fact, I have introduced…
I have to question the timing of this first ever pro-Catholic resolution. And I think it is totally appropriate to bring it to the debate, the fact that if the people who are bringing this resolution forward are so pro-Catholic, let us see…
I do not know what the correct level of radium in the water should be. However, I should point out to the Members that at one point the EPA was saying that level should be 20 pico Curies, which is a measurement of radio activity in water…
I support the motion to instruct, and my Republican colleagues know full well that after their tax bill is vetoed, we are going to be back to precisely what we are talking about today, a tax cut which would give back about 25 percent of…
I rise in support of H.R. 975, legislation to limit and monitor foreign steel imports. H.R. 975 would impose quotas on foreign steel imports equal to their July 1997 import levels. Imposing quotas is a dramatic step. However, it is a step…
let me reclaim my time and ask the gentleman, are all those filings the initial filing upon hiring the employee, or is that the filings an employer would go through after an employee has been with him or her for a period of years?
Mr. Chairman, I think the intended purpose of the legislation before us is quite laudable. Although I have yet to hear any real cogent arguments against the amendment pending before the House, we are told by the author of the bill that it…
I rise to support the men and women of our military participating in Operation Desert Fox. Their willingness to risk their lives defending our Constitution and freedom is the highest form of patriotism. Saddam Hussein has stood in the way…
It's been called the crime that isn't a crime. How can that be? Ask Jessica Grant, a Wisconsin woman whose identity was stolen through use of her Social Security number. Her name was used by a thief to buy two cars and a mobile home. Under…
So Ed, on behalf of all of your friends here in the House of Representatives, let me thank you for your 21 years of dedicated service. May you enjoy your retirement in good health and with God's blessing, and know that when I have the…
I rise today to dispel a myth. Most of us who frequent this Chamber, if we ever stop to consider it, probably think the mace just magically appears and disappears at the start and conclusion of each session. The truth is much harder to…
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