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that is also why in this tax cut package, and we heard the debate earlier in the evening to try to provide tax cuts for people who are not paying any taxes. They have somehow lost sight of this, and we see as this is all developing and we…
I planned on rising tonight to talk about our debt and deficit and how we will balance the budget and how important it is to our children's future that we do balance the budget and talk also about a bill that we will be introducing about…
And what new government program can we enact, and how fast can we get it into place to make sure we get the taxpayers' money spent? Because we know if they spend it in Washington, the people in Washington can do a much better job spending…
If you are a family of 5 and you are earning, say, $35,000 a year and let us just say you have got one headed off to college that is going to pay about $5,000 a year, could the gentleman help our colleagues this evening to understand if…
Could we talk a little bit more about that family earning $45,000 a year that actually gets paid $45,000 a year, but with their imputed tax under the liberal Democrat plan that goes all the way to $75,000? Would it be fair to say that they…
If you moved out of your house and rented it out so you collected that $12,000 more a year, so that your income went up by $12,000, where would you live? And would that not cost you money?
Can the gentleman imagine, just go back to the past here for just a second, and let us say that in the past they envisioned a surplus occurring. What does the gentleman suppose the first thought in Washington would have been in the past if…
That is certainly good news for the farmers in the Midwest, which all of us represent. With that, we will turn our attention to the reason that we are here today, that is to talk about the budget process, the debt, the deficit, where we…
I think it is important again, we have moved into the present and what is happening and how is it different than the past. The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings chart shows when the targets were not met. We have moved into the new theoretical model…
In both 1990 and especially in 1993, we saw the biggest tax increase in American history. In 1993, people started looking at these deficit lines and realized we had to do something about the deficit and in clear Washington-style thinking…
as this debate on reducing taxes on working families in America unfolds, I find it somewhat amazing what is going on up there. One of the goofiest criticisms that I have heard is that people that are paying no taxes in this country do not…
Is it not a wonderful fight we are going to have out here over which taxes we should cut and how far we should cut them? Think back to 1993. Does the gentleman remember 1993? The question was which taxes should we raise and how far should…
This whole vision that we are talking about here for the future of our great country, it is so different than the 1980's where there were promises made under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and those promises, for whatever reasons, could not be kept…
I think we should jointly here show the American people just how positive and how close we really are to a balanced budget and how far ahead of schedule. If we look at the average Federal revenue growth, how much Government growth…
You know, all this discussion about tax cuts, we sometimes get lost in the fact that we are even having a debate about cutting taxes as opposed to raising taxes from 1993. Whenever I am out with folks back home and I have got a problem…
I think I will conclude my part of this by just reminding the folks one more time how different 1997 is versus the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill where they said they are going to balance the budget and they missed their targets. They…
Sunday is Father's Day, and I would like to start by paying tribute to my father, who has done such a great job in helping myself and my brothers and sisters in getting to where we are in our lives today. Certainly, without his support as…
I rise this morning and I would like to use my 1 minute to provide a positive vision for the future of this great country that we live in. The first part of that vision would include the Republican-led Congress working with their…
I will just point out one or two additions to this, and it certainly relates directly to the idea of people keeping more of their own money as opposed to sending it to Washington. Did my colleagues know today the Federal Government in…
What happened over the last couple of years is that government was growing at a very, very rapid rate... Government spending in fact is going up, and in a very organized and direct and caring manner. Government is learning to control the…
I commend the chairman of this committee and also the ranking minority member from the other side of the aisle, this is great work. It is great for the future of this country. I would agree with the comments of the gentleman from Missouri…
It was going up by 5.2 percent a year in the 7 years before we got here. Under this plan, and the first 2 years since 1995, it is now going up by 3.2 percent. Let us put that in inflation-adjusted dollars. It was going up 1.8; it is now…
Well, Mr. Chairman, I also think we should talk about nondefense discretionary spending. That is the part of the budget we have the most control over. That was rising by 6.7 percent annually before we took over, in the 7 years before we…
Just to make the record 100 percent clear, if this amendment is passed, there is still $700 million of unexpended FEMA money in here. So the gap that the gentleman is talking about and, by the way, I very much respect the chairman of our…
I rise to address the budget that is currently being discussed in Washington, DC, and maybe to clean up some misinformation that is floating around out here and provide some very basic elementary facts on what is included in the budget…
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