Paul Ryan

Mr. Chairman, this NIF project is over budget. It is behind schedule. It has experienced several technical difficulties and problems. It has been criticized by the other labs, and it has been plagued with mismanagement. For example, first…

All it does is says, a Member of Congress, if they want to cut spending in an appropriations bill, can dedicate that savings to another bill, to another program that is more valuable, or to pay off the debt. Mr. Chairman, 328 members of…

It is no secret that our veterans population is aging. In fact, in 2010--over half of the veterans population will be over the age of 62. Currently, 36 percent of all veterans are over the age of 65 and that number is expected to increase…

I think one can clearly contest the point whether coal is going to be the fuel of choice or not. I think natural gas has a good case for it. I think that around the country, according to the Department of Energy itself, natural gas usage…

I simply think it comes down to the point where we have the mechanism in place under the 1990 Clean Air Act to reduce emissions. Emission trading is a market-based initiative that is actually serving this public good, without having to…

Mr. Chairman, in short, my amendment that I bring forward is an amendment to make special education a priority by increasing the funding for IDEA by $300 million and by reducing the 21st Century Learning Centers by the same amount, an…

This program goes vastly beyond its original intent, even stated by the author of the program. Two, even with this amendment, after-school programs will be vastly increased. Even with this amendment, in fiscal year 1999 there is a $100…

Les Aspin served the First Congressional District for 22 years; served as Secretary of Defense, was a scholar, was a professor and academic. He was known as a good statesman, as an honest man. Whether we agreed or disagreed on a given…

I believe that it would be appropriate to honor the late Congressman Aspin by naming the U.S. Post Office in Janesville, Wisconsin, my own hometown, as the Les Aspin Post Office Building.

What we have been seeing with this administration, and the gentleman should correct me if I am wrong, is the fact that they have lessened our commitment. They have gone away from funding the unfunded mandate we are imposing on local…

we cannot control what happens in a conference report. We cannot control from this Chamber or from the other Chamber what they do in conference reports. So this amendment does not try to control that, it simply tries to capture the savings…

this is a very, very straightforward amendment. All this amendment does is it simply says that if you are a Member of Congress and you want to reduce spending, you want to go after a wasteful program, that means you can then use that money…

This amendment is commonly referred to as the discretionary lockbox. It simply says this. If you are a Member of Congress and you come to the floor of Congress with an amendment to reduce or cut spending, that money will go toward debt…

Mr. Panetta said, ``We should set aside a specific amount of the projected budget surplus for either use on entitlement programs or tax cuts, and Members can then fight on how that should be done. But to establish a pay-go account for that…

I see that the committee's report that accompanies this bill encourages the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations to ensure that up to date building control technologies are used in the Pentagon as that building is renovated…

I would like to first discuss what this motion to instruct actually does. The motion to instruct right now talks about having a prescription drug plan immediately, but I find it interesting to note that the minority side, when advancing…

to respond to the gentleman's question, in his chart he says in the first year that we have zero tax cuts. If we take a look at page 29 of the bill, we actually have $5 billion in tax cuts. So looking at the legislation that we are here…

This budget that we are talking about here protects 100 percent of the Social Security surplus; it strengthens Medicare with a prescription drug plan by setting aside $40 billion; it retires the public debt by the year 2013; it promotes…

If you take a look at the numbers, they are trying to tell us that we are dipping into the Social Security surplus. Take a look at these numbers. These numbers they made up. These numbers they made up. These numbers right here, the costs…

Yes. If we take a look at the chart that the minority staff has prepared, the footnote of these two quotes on this chart, the figures on this chart are interpolated by Democratic staff. They are extrapolations for the second 5 years made…

the budget we are trying to accomplish here has six very simple principles. We have been talking about these six principles today, but I want to talk about the Social Security portion of our budget, the most important aspect of this…

that is right; $28 billion over the next 3 years and then zero after that. What our budget does is spend $40 billion of hard cash, $40 billion over the next 5 years, for prescription drugs for Medicare and for reforms for the Medicare…

I know the gentleman is a physician. Could the gentleman just explain what kind of things we are funding with this kind of basic research? What kinds of diseases are we attempting to cure? What kinds of institutions is this money going…

if we look at the President's budget, he is saying let us spend $28 billion in Medicare for prescription drugs, but that is only over 2 years. In the year 2003, in the year 2004 and in the year 2005, he spends zero money on Medicare.

We as Members of Congress are in a very unique position to promote the census. The census is an extraordinarily important civic demonstration which has so much consequences in each of our districts, not just on whether or not we are…