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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…
there are two other benefits that I would like to point out in this plan. If there is a 20-year-old today and he started putting money into this plan and his account grew and at age 45, for whatever reason, something happened, he is…
if we look at what is happening in America today and we look at the revenue growth rate and the spending growth rate, and to most American citizens they do not want to know about all that stuff, that is our job to know that stuff, but when…
The single most important determining factor in whether or not a teenager is going to be involved with drugs is the involvement of the parent in the teenager's life. The right answers to these problems are empowering our parents. That is…
I rise today. First I would like to commend the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations for sticking to our core principles, that 3 years ago we made a commitment that we were going to stop spending our children's money, and I would…
I rise to address what is a very important issue and has been uniquely addressed in the great State of Wisconsin. In a Senate race developing out there, of course, campaign finance reform came up, and the debate really is about whether the…
I am trying to think of the exact words to express the feelings of so many of the people in our district that are so real, from these kids under the age of 6, because these feelings are very real. I have been in two high schools. I have…
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.
Reclaiming my time, that would also apply to things like the college tuition tax cut. I had some experience with this. I addressed a college with about 800 students and I told them all about this, and some of their parents wanted to try…
I rise for a variety of issues today I would like to talk about. First, I would like to talk about a major change that has occurred that probably will not make sense to a lot of viewers in America, but has a lot of meaning out here in…
Reclaiming my time, listening to you talk is why it is so exciting. My colleague was here; he cosponsored this legislation, and we said we were going to balance the budget sooner than 2002. We said we were going to lower taxes so people…
We talked about daring to dream. We talked about my personal life where we reached a point that we could not pay our bills, where we started a business and turned it into something. We talked about starting the home building business and…
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…
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…
I couldn't agree more. Going on with this dream, we talked about a debt-free America for our children and how wonderful it would be if when they had their kids, that they didn't have to pay $580 a month to pay interest on the Federal debt…
I would just add that when we dream about the future of this country that is going to be a drug free nation for our children, when we have that dream about the future of America, I do not think we should temper it with not inhaling or some…
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.
When we think about the war on drugs or bringing education back to number one in the world for our kids here in America, can this goal, can this job of getting from where we are today to a drug-free America and back to where our education…
today CBO or the Congressional Budget Office, the agency that is responsible for tracking revenues and expenditures of the United States Government on behalf of the House of Representatives and the Senate, released a new set of estimates…
That is a second possibility, but if we borrow more money, that just keeps making our debt bigger and bigger, and if the debt keeps getting bigger and bigger, the interest payment keeps going up higher and higher, and what we are passing…
The Social Security Preservation Act would require the Social Security dollars coming in this year be put into the Social Security Trust Fund. The National Debt Repayment Act, as it relates to Social Security, would look at the dollars…
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…
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?
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…
What is also interesting in this school discussion, we have got school districts in our district that have just built new schools. So are we going to go into the taxpayers' pockets in Janesville, that just built a new middle school, get…
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