Bob Wise

when you and I go into Wal-Mart, we are looking for markdowns. But I ask, ``How would you feel knowing, when you walk in, you're getting a markup of 30 percent on our health insurance because of the way that a company like Wal-Mart does…

health care and pizza came together last week when the chairman of Godfather's Pizza claimed the Clinton health care package would increase health care costs to him four times. Let us look at a piece of his pizza. First of all, out of a…

I too join to thank the chairman and to urge support of this en bloc amendment, including the amendments offered by the gentleman from California, the gentleman from Washington, the gentleman from California, the gentleman from Michigan…

I just want to remind Members who may vote for the Stenholm amendment, you vote for it based upon your convictions and indeed your courage, if you feel it requires that. But the Stenholm amendment is not the tough vote. The tough vote is…

I have already put out a balanced budget amendment that I believe in. It may be your last opportunity to vote for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. Government. It is not your last opportunity to vote for deficit…

reclaiming my time, if the gentleman wants to talk about smoke and mirrors, I think that is a perfect example of some of it. We have had a very good debate to date. We have just had that kind of outburst challenging motivations. I would…

I just want to respond to the previous speaker, who compared two sons of Illinois, the chairman of the committee, Mr. Rostenkowski, and Milton Friedman. The difference I would point out is that Chairman Rostenkowski makes things work. He…

I think this has been a useful debate, and I appreciate the chance. I do want to quickly respond to a couple of remarks that were made. The gentleman from Texas made an excellent pun on my name. He talked about the unwise amendment. I…

if I may reclaim my time, I am not writing this for any Federal agency or I am not writing for the General Accounting Office. I am writing this to reflect sound constitutional practice. The Office of Management and Budget, for instance…

It will be defined in the Congress as every other major issue is defined in the Congress, and, yes, it will be by majority vote. My personal recommendation is that you have a bipartisan commission that is assigned and developed to make…

Mr. Chairman, we have four constitutional amendments before us for consideration today. There are three that are roughly fairly similar. There is one that is different, and that is the Wise-Price-Pomeroy-Furse amendment that is before us…

Mr. Chairman, the gentleman made several claims about the Wise amendment which concern me, because I do not think that it is either the intent or actually in the amendment. The gentleman said that, for instance, it could be permitted to be…

I appreciate that. I would note for the gentleman from California that it is true that Mr. Friedman has won a distinguished award, as have many other economists with differing views from Mr. Friedman, so I return to my original point. Some…

Mr. Chairman, the best way to preserve Social Security and keep it intact is to keep it off budget. That, indeed, is what I think I have heard at some point. A majority of my colleagues, in written statements, spoken statements, speeches…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman from Oregon [Ms. Furse], who has been instrumental in crafting this. I would note for Members that you should have hand delivered to your office the latest copy of the amendment that we will be…

I always pay it back, and I have in my income-debt service when we budget that, we know how much we owe each month and so, therefore, we write it in there. Under my proposal of capital budgeting, that amendment called debt service would be…

I rise obviously in opposition to the Kyl amendment. A lot of points have been made already, but I want to quickly summarize some that have not. First of all, I am concerned about the Kyl amendment, because with the limitation of 19…

Mr. Chairman, my concern over the so-called Kyl amendment going to the line-item veto is, as I understand it, and I would say to the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Kyl], I would be happy to be corrected, but my understanding is that it is not…

I think we may be trying to find something to fight about. I think we are both saying the same thing. I am saying my concern over the Kyl amendment, by the 19-percent limitation written into the Constitution, at a time when you need the…

I guess my Keynes is Ronald Reagan, who managed to push tax cuts through and spending increases through, using what had heretofore been traditional Keynesian economics, to spur an economy, and for a while it caught. The only problem is…

the gentleman makes a good point though which is the amount where you need to commit the money sometimes is in the buildup, but in the case of the Persian Gulf where, as the gentleman correctly notes, happily this country was reimbursed…

does the gentleman think, and I ask this once again because I am not trying to trap the gentleman, I am just interested in this concept, but does the gentleman think that can cause problems perhaps? I am wondering about, for instance, the…

First, his first point on the recession waiver: The gentleman regrettably has not read fully the text of our amendment, because what it says is that you can waive the provisions of the balanced budget amendment in only two circumstances…

Ours is an alternative, and we are saying that we are prepared and want to craft a reasonable amendment to the Constitution of the United States. But I do want to disassociate myself from the remarks of some who want to join the…

I believe this chart shows a lot; you see that the Health Insurance Association of America has spent now at least $14 million in TV ads to kill the Clinton health plan, to kill guaranteed private insurance for all Americans. This injection…