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Reclaiming my time, the statement of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Duncan] about complacency and the pastor's words reminds me of a saying that has been ringing very much in my ears as we contemplate the next election cycle. And that…
I want to start tonight by proposing some new legislation as it relates to campaign finance reform. And here is what our legislation will do. We will make it illegal to make fund-raising phone calls from offices that are paid for by the…
Could I just add that that would save 290,000 trees in the United States of America if we were able to do that? It takes 293,000 trees to provide the paper necessary to send out those eight billion pages. It is staggering the amount.
Did you know the IRS sends out 8 billion pages every year to keep people up to speed on the IRS? From an environmental point of view, do you have any idea how many trees have to be cut down to supply eight billion pages?
Did you know that the entire Bible that we were given to tell us all the important things that are in the Bible that are so important to so many of us is only 800,000 words, compared to the 5.5 million words in the IRS code?
For the senior citizens in our Nation under this bill, the Social Security trust fund would be repaired in its entirety and Social Security would once again be solvent for our senior citizens. For the workers out there today, all the…
I am glad you brought that up. I see my good friend from New York has joined us as well. One of the complaints I have gotten, there is static that we have changed the course from the 1993 tax increases. They are happy with the $500 per…
Let me go a step further. What I think is really significant on that, when I think of my children in the same spot that we were a few years back where our kids are growing up and have a family, are married, have got 3 kids in their…
It is roughly 7 percent of this number, so the Federal Government is spending about $330 billion every year. Roughly $1 out of every 6 that the United States Government spends is to pay nothing but interest on this Federal debt. We should…
That does nothing but pay the interest on the Federal debt. So even after we get to a balanced budget, this debt is still out there hanging over our heads. If we do not do anything about it, of course, this debt will be the legacy that we…
What this amendment is doing is getting us to the point where the businesses that would like to provide the safest workplace possible have the ability to do that, working in conjunction with OSHA. OSHA becomes a workplace-friendly…
Mr. Speaker, this truly is a great day for America. What an exciting thing to be a part of out here. The first time since 1969... It is equally important as the fact that it is happening. When we came here in 1995, we had a vision for a…
I want to close out my time this evening by paying tribute to so many people that are involved in this, from our families and kids who spend time without us so this can get done, to all the people across this Nation who elected a group of…
I ran as a Republican, even though in the past I had voted both Democrat and Republican. I ran as a Republican because the ``we'' the gentleman was talking about was on the other side of the aisle. Not a single solitary Republican voted…
In the full committee, our biggest problem that we had after we left full committee and entered into further discussions on it, if reconciliation passes and contains these provisions, I do not think there is anyone that has a problem in…
When you look back at Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the failures to keep their promises and when you look back at the tax increases of 1993, yeah, but we cannot control Washington spending, it is easier to take the money away from the people…
Everybody knows that the Green Bay Packers won the Superbowl. Everybody knows that they are headed back there. Everybody knows that the great Governor Tommy Thompson has been largely leading the way on welfare reform, where we in Wisconsin…
Is this not sort of a picture of what really is going on out here in Washington right now? We are looking at these programs and we are finding that in Government spending so much of it is eaten up by this Washington bureaucracy and the…
So the gentleman is saying for $27,000 a year of cost per volunteer, do I have that right, $27,000 per volunteer? In Wisconsin we usually think of voluntarism as something someone does because they think it is good for their community, but…
The average increase in revenue to the Federal Government over the last 3 years was 7.3 percent. Inflation is only 2 rac{1}{2}, 3 percent. So it is going up at over twice the rate of inflation. Revenue to the Federal government. This is…
Faster than what I would like, I might add. But absolutely. Spending would still go up and could go up faster than the rate of inflation. It is important to remember that revenues to the Federal Government grow because of real growth in…
And do not forget the other part of that, that is that the Social Security trust fund is restored. It is so important to look at this because if the money is not in the Social Security trust fund, Social Security is bankrupt in the year…
That is correct. For a family of five, that translates into $580 a month to do nothing but pay interest on the Federal debt.
The original 7-year plan to balance the Federal budget. We were to get to zero in the year 2002. We are now in the third year, and it is important to note that the deficit is significantly under those projections. We are in the third year…
If a family is earning $30,000 a year and they are living in this house, the Government does not say you are earning $30,000 a year. The Government, under the Clinton administration, is saying that if they lived in a tent in the backyard…
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