Mark Neumann

Yes, those deficits that the American people and my colleagues talked about all through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, they took all of that Social Security surplus, they put it all in the big government checkbook, they wrote out…

Right. Again, I think we have to go back to this understanding that, when people out here talk about cutting spending, they do not actually mean they are cutting spending. They mean, instead of letting the growth rate be double the rate of…

Reclaiming my time again, I would like to ask my friend from Michigan that all important question, have you seen anything in your years here in Washington that would lead you to believe that somehow because we are here in Washington we…

Help me understand why it is that, as a taxpayer sends their money to Washington, and Washington decides how to best provide education for those kids back home, what exactly is it in the water out here or what is out here that makes us…

For the first time since 1969 for the last 12 months running, this government spent less money than they had in their checkbook. That is just a monumental change in the way things have been done. I should say it again because it is that…

It passed without a single, solitary Republican vote. I am sure the gentleman from Michigan remembers what I am talking about here. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.

We are now in surplus in both the general fund and in the Social Security fund. There is such good news on the economic front here.

The key here is as we eliminate this waste, it provides us with the dollars necessary to reduce the tax burden on the American people, while, at the same time, leaving our hands off of Social Security, which is what the Social Security…

Along with every one of those 760 is a huge bureaucracy to run the program, and what is happening is the bureaucrats are getting the money that is supposed to be in the schools helping our kids.

Just for a second, when you have got 760 different education programs run by the United States Government.

Would it be fair to say when we look at the Labor Department, they are missing $3 billion, and if we could cut out that part where they cannot find any, we could apply that $3 billion to tax reductions to the American people?

This is really about whether or not the United States government is going to interfere and mandate higher prices than the market would bear for peanuts. The price those farmers are farming and selling those peanuts, who are not under the…

I would just say it is very important to me that we keep this from becoming a partisan issue. This is not about Republicans or Democrats, or even about the Clinton administration. This is about where we are right now today. In my opinion…

The marriage tax penalty is one of those commonsense issues in this country that makes people so angry out there in America. It is one of those issues, when you go to people and say, did you know that if four people work at the same job…

We do not have to be pessimistic in America. We do not have to say our best days are behind us. ... We can go out and play the second half of this game, the second half of our lives, if you like, and we can make sure that by 20 or 30 years…

Does the gentleman know what they are saying over there? They are saying that this tax increase somehow balanced the budget. I have brought a couple of notes with me.

And that is the thing that our agriculture industry needs to understand. If this organization goes in with this policy of devaluation and they devalue the dollar in Indonesia by 50 percent, that effectively makes our farm products that…

I think what the gentleman talks about, and I showed this chart earlier this evening, but when he talks about what happened, and they said the 1993 tax increase somehow solved this problem. This is in 1995, 2 years after the tax increase…

I encourage my colleague to fill the viewers and our colleagues in on exactly how they would go about getting that $400 now instead of last year, $400 divided over the 12 months of 1998.

I think it has been a lot of us here together, getting this job done. But I do think that it is the American people that deserve the credit for sending a group of people here that were willing to commit to these dreams.

As we continue this dream for the future of America, and I do think it is important we dare to dream, if we had not dared to dream back in 1995 we would not be here today standing here talking about a balanced budget and lower taxes for…

To that end, I just interviewed a former lieutenant commander. We were talking about the possibility of him working in our congressional office. He told the story of every third flight something breaking down in the aircraft he was flying…

The price does go up by 10 to 15 percent. Remember, when Washington collects these dollars, 40 cents on the dollar is lost just on the bureaucracy. That 10 to 15 percent is the cost of construction going up. So you not only have to collect…

Does that mean there will have to be less paperwork and less bureaucracy and less forms and less time spent on those forms and the paperwork and bureaucracy?