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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…
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…
So does that mean we want more Washington programs or government run from Washington programs for education?
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…
The Social Security System this year is collecting about $450 billion from taxpayers all across America, including my 15-year-old son who is paying about $300 into that system. So they are collecting about $450 billion this year. They are…
It is not the Democrats that have balanced the budget or the Republicans that have balanced the budget; it is hardworking American citizens that have taken the investment opportunities, invested their money and saved, gone to work every…
I would like to begin today on a solemn note and extend my condolences to the Bono family and recognize Sonny for the great man he was. I will never forget the first time that my daughter found out that Sonny Bono was serving in Congress…
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 would ask the gentleman, does that continuing resolution fund the government at 100 percent of last year's level? Mr
I rise this morning to look at the results of last night's elections and see that the people have spoken and they do not believe it is selfish for the working families of this great Nation to want to keep more of their own money in their…
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.
I would like to also begin this night by expressing my condolences to the family of our colleague, Mr. Capps. I cannot count how many times my wife has said to me that she hopes that our 24 years of marriage will allow other folks around…
first in response to my colleague from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], we do not need a compromise, we need Washington out of our lives and we need Washington to leave education in the hands of the parents, the communities, and the school boards…
Absolutely not. And I think my colleague and I would probably not do that. We would not want it to increase faster than the rate of inflation for sure. But even if it goes up faster, it has got to go up slower than the rate of revenue…
I have to tell my colleagues about my dream when we talk about this, because this is my dream for my own personal future. My wife dreams about going to Hawaii, and I think that is a wonderful dream, too. But my dream is, I wake up some…
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.
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…
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…
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…
When we came here, many of our colleagues tonight are playing basketball, so this is no pun intended. There is a good spirited basketball charity game going on out here tonight, but if we had all played basketball and not done our job…
I believe that we should introduce a budget that is balanced in 1998, yes. I think it would be inexcusable for this body, short of some major change in the economy, to not get to a balanced budget by 1999 at the very latest. The revenues…
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