The country will be lesser for your loss, and I want to thank you for your service.
I do want to welcome my constituent, Bill Boarman, to this Committee and strongly recommend his approval, his confirmation.
I find it inexcusable that when we had a growing economy, we still allowed the debt to increase.
We are all going to keep the pressure on the larger banks to make small business loans, but it is going to be a struggle.
I think we are all saying the same thing, but----
I want to get to the deficit, because everybody here has talked about the deficit.
If we are looking at a sustainable budget, one could say the Federal Government could cut back on its commitments to pay for part of health ...
Those who assert none of this is working are to me detached from reality.
They do not have a good history of loaning moneys to small businesses.
How do we structure our foreign assistance budget that does not become a tool for anti-American intervention in the country?
Sometimes it is easier when you have a budget surplus to spend recklessly.
The question really is how we can have a fiscally sustainable budget, so let me stay on health care for one more moment...
We also know that we need consumer confidence for people to spend.
I hope that what will clearly be nonnegotiable is that health care reform has got to bring down the growth rate of health care costs.
It is way too big, and we know we can't have a sustainable, fiscally responsible Federal budget unless we deal with the debt.
If we are going to have a level playing field, why won't the administration be more aggressive on the currency issue?
I firmly believe that the development, manufacture and wide scale deployment of innovative renewable energy technologies will be critical to...
I would clearly agree that we need to focus on our entire economy.
