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I believe that this census is a very important census. This committee has done very good work to put this census together. However, this is not an emergency. There are portions of this census, the $1.7 billion part of this census, that is…
I have watched the debate over agriculture appropriations for the past two days. Farmers are the backbone of my state. The economy of Wisconsin is based on agriculture--if our farmers suffer, the economy of our entire state suffers. These…
The point is we want everyone to be counted. We want to make sure that every person in this country is counted, and by voting for the Maloney amendment we will effectively be voting to deprive local government officials from having the…
I listen to the inflammatory rhetoric we are hearing on the House Floor today, and I think that we are looking at two different budgets. It is very important to note that when you are budgeting, what you are doing is outlining priorities…
As we know from studies from the Census Bureau themselves, populations of under 100,000 are underserved under sampling. So if someone represents a district that has less than 100,000 inhabitants, every city in the district I represent in…
What we have been doing in the Committee on the Budget has been two things, analyzing the President's budget proposal, taking it very seriously, and crafting our own budget proposal. It was my first time to sit in this well of this House…
What if these surpluses never materialize? What if the money does not come? We have to do everything to assure that it does materialize. But by creating 120 new government programs in Washington, that can become and will become tomorrow's…
But as we debate what we are going to do on Social Security, we need to send a message to our Nation's Social Security retirees, our current beneficiaries, that they will be held harmless in this debate as we move forward on Social…
today the House will be considering H.J. Res. 32, the Social Security Guarantee Initiative. I recently introduced this resolution that expresses Congress' commitment to protecting Social Security benefits for all current and future…
The Federal Communications Commission has disregarded the intent of Congress, and in my view, consumers are suffering.
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