Mark Neumann

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…

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…

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…

I think that is a good lead-in to wrapping this hour up this evening. We have dedicated the hour to my dad and others, people like him across America that are so responsible for giving us the opportunity to be here and change this great…

The wonderful thing to think about here is, it is more than about these numbers and charts; it is about my two kids are in college and my other one, who is a freshman in high school, it is about these kids and whether or not there are…

74 percent of all senior citizens in Wisconsin still own their own home, and there is a new tax provision that is very directly aimed at senior citizens, but it is going to affect all of society, and that is if they have lived in their…

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…

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…

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…

I rise with somewhat mixed feelings on this whole issue, and I would like to start by joining the gentleman from Maryland in supporting what he is trying to do, and the protection of children is certainly very important to all of us, but I…

back when I was growing up, my daddy taught me how to read a map; and the first thing he taught me is I had to know where I was before I could decide how I was going to get to where I was going to. When we talk about campaign finance…

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…

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.

I rise today really to call attention to the part of the recently passed plan that balances the budget for the first time since 1969, reduces taxes for the first time in 16 years, and restores Medicare to that part of the plan that…

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…

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?

Just to expand on that a little bit, exactly how this would work, what we do is after we balance the budget we cap the growth of Washington spending at a rate 1 percent under the rate of revenue growth, at least 1 percent, it might be even…

Let us make this very clear, though, that we have changed from a nonnegotiable bond; that is, a bond that cannot be liquidated, sold, in the marketplace, when the money is needed to make good on the Social Security checks, we have changed…

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…

First off we need to understand that the government bonds that it is currently held in are called nonnegotiable government bonds. Definition of nonnegotiable means they cannot be sold, which also means when we reach a shortfall in the…

That is exactly right, and that is exactly what we are doing out here with one slight difference. Out here we are adding to that amount every year. Since 1969, this number has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. So if we put this in…

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…

If there is any business owner in America today that set up a pension fund for his employees or her employees and then did not put the money in the pension fund, put in nonnegotiable instruments owned by the company, or IOU's, as USA Today…