Mark Neumann

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

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…

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…

What amazes me is that in 4 short years, the amount of time it has taken to turn this picture around, that we have actually curtailed, slowed the growth of Washington spending, we have had these changes from 1993, everyone has forgotten…

Is it not great that instead of the government dictating and mandating what kind of program is going to fit all the people in America, instead of doing that, we set this plan up and we let people decide which way they would like to save up…

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…

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…

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 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…

In 1993, they raised taxes so they could maintain all sorts of new Washington programs like Goals 2000, like national testing, like all kinds of things. They raised taxes so they could continue the growth of Washington spending, making…

I thought I would conclude my hour this evening by wrapping up what we have been talking about. The discussion has been about more Washington and more Washington control of our lives versus less Washington and less Washington control of…

I have to sell our State and say how good the business climate is there under our Governor Tommy Thompson. But we have a lot of people transferring in from a higher-priced home area, such as California, to a lower-priced area, such as…

I turn our attention now to the question that I get asked quite regularly after I get done talking about the tax cuts, and they are very concerned that we are not destroying this Nation to do it. I start tonight by talking about how we got…

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…

I want to reemphasize that working model of curtailing the growth of Washington spending that is so important in understanding what has happened out here. Washington spending, before we got here, a 5.2 percent growth rate. After we got…

I rise tonight to bring some good news to the American people. I spent some time in my district on Thursday and Friday, and I had a chance to talk with lots of folks and it occurred to me as I was talking with the people back home that the…

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.

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 sincerely hope that our colleagues and our colleagues' parents all across America will look to our parents and thank them for their contribution as Medicare has been restored. I thought, continuing this theme of dedicating a portion of…

So perhaps we should re-pass them in that case. I want to move forward now in a much more direct manner here. I would like to dedicate the rest of this hour to a very important person, and I want to pay special tribute to him this evening…

Reclaiming my time, that is great and that is where we should be going with the future of this country. Another thing I know my parents and they have talked to me a lot about and most senior citizens in this country, they want to give a…

the other one that relates to education, in the same area, is the $500 per child education savings account. I have a lot of grandparents that say what should we give our grandchildren for this particular birthday or this particular…

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…

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…

Well, I think the logical next step in this whole thing is the answer to that question. That is, after we balance the budget, we still have that $5.3 trillion debt that our generation is going to give to the next as a legacy if we do not…