Mark Neumann

In order to have a Washington-run education program, we are going to tax the people in Wisconsin one dollar, and, assuming they get a dollar back, they are only going to get 60 cents to help the kids in the classroom. The rest of that…

It sure is frustrating to be in a system where we recognize that those tax dollars that are so important that they get to our kids to help them with the most advanced technology, to get the computers in the classrooms, to do what the…

No, that is not right. Does it not cost money to have somebody fill out all these papers, first off, and to have Washington send them back to Wisconsin? Out of the tax dollar we are collecting and sending to Wisconsin, all you are…

So you are telling me then that the system that the Congress has the most influence over is one of the most high priced in terms of dollars per student and is producing some of the worst results. Would the logical conclusion be that maybe…

So does that mean we want more Washington programs or government run from Washington programs for education?

The 3 problems we have left are taxes are too high. We still have a $5.5 trillion debt staring us in the face and the Social Security issue which we discussed in great detail earlier here in the hour. We have two pieces of legislation, and…

I would ask the gentleman, does that continuing resolution fund the government at 100 percent of last year's level? Mr

If I can reclaim my time, I would like to ask my friend, the gentleman from Michigan another question that I think kind of puts this all into perspective

On that point, if I could just reclaim my time for a minute, yes, those deficits that the American people and my colleagues Page H7899 talked about all through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, they took all of that Social Security…

I do want to continue the conversation that is started down here on the floor tonight, and I want to talk specifically about Social Security, and I want to talk about both sides' commitment to Social Security, but before I do there is…

I want to bring this up to discuss a little bit, because as a former teacher I was actively involved in developing tests, but it was not a national test, it was a local test.

The first night when I found these numbers, I called my wife and said, ``You are not even going to believe this. I found out that, when we go back to our 1995 promises, we had over $100 billion more revenue coming in and we actually spent…

That is exactly why it is so important that folks understand that even after we get to a balanced budget we still have a $5.3 trillion debt that an average family of five sends $580 a month just to pay the interest on the debt. That is…

It is down to 1602. So we are now $22 billion under. This is less Washington spending than what we promised. When I tell folks this, they absolutely do not believe it until I actually show it to them. It is there in the budget. I challenge…

So we spent less money than what we said we were going to spend. Washington actually spent less money than what we originally said we were going to.

There are a few things, I guess, that we really do think an awful lot different between the President and ourselves. He did sign the budget deal, and he did sign the bills that lowered our taxes and that stuff but, my goodness gracious…

The ``rush out and spend it'' part? Over my dead body. That really is the attitude of an awful lot of us out here in Washington right now. We have had it with those past practices of breaking the promises to the American people, and we…

In the community I live in in Jaynesville, WI, we build Suburbans and Tahoes there. And we can see the direct result of this picture of the deficit coming down so the interest rates stay down low. People can afford to buy Suburbans and…

More jobs here in America for our kids so they can have the opportunity to live the American dream.

I do not know if you caught the new numbers now being talked about out here in Washington. We are looking at a $23 billion deficit, the lowest deficit since the early 1970s. As a percent of GDP, it is the lowest deficit we have had since…

Reclaiming my time, I am a former math teacher, and I think it is downright dangerous to listen to that kind of advice from those kinds of experts.

It will not be long and CBO will be in our court, and they will actually admit that the budget is going to be balanced next year, in fiscal year 1998, for the first time in 30 years. They are slowly coming around to the numbers that the…

They say under this new Tax Code, reclaiming my time, that 90 percent of all farms may now be passed from one generation to the next generation without the tax being due, the death tax being due to the extent where many of those farms are…

No. One can keep putting $2,000 per year into this account each year from now through the year they retire, unless, unless we go back to the ways of 1993; and if we go back to the ways of 1993, broken promises and higher taxes, certainly…

I am optimistic that we will have an inner-term vote, but at least it says no new Washington spending with the extra revenues coming in. And it will put us on track that the only thing we can do with the surpluses is either reduce taxes or…