The real threat to job creation is the threat of repealing this law and going back to a system that stacks the deck against me.

Yet, as Mr. Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee last month, he expects the law will cost 800,000 jobs by 2021.

This is simply not sustainable for my home state, or any other.

The true cost of Obamacare is worse than what any of us expected--higher premiums, more federal health spending, fewer jobs.

CBO's estimate of total spending on coverage expansions in PPACA grew from $938 billion last March to $1.445 trillion.

If the intent of reforming the health care system was indeed to bend the cost curve, then it looks like mission accomplished. Unfortunately, we bent it in the wrong direction.

CBO, however, projects that the real cost of the coverage expansions will be $229 billion in 2020 and $245 billion in 2021.

Well, one thing--and I just, Mr. Carrow, we certainly should not have al-Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan having better communication than we might have.

Well, let me just add, as you keep going down, gentlemen, we will need your advocacy for people to understand that we are not sacrificing deficit reduction, which is one of the issues that the FCC was instructed to use spectrum for, that…

Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 839, the HAMP Termination Act. I was sent to the Nation's capital like so many Members of the 112th Congress, to do something about cutting back on wasteful Washington spending, to do something…

The public. Absolutely. The United States taxpayers.

We are not talking about the Gulf of Mexico, OK, where the most two recent leases were leased.

I actually have confidence for the oil, the resources that are privately owned.

I take exception with one of the comments made by one of my colleagues earlier about big oil.

I would urge the administration to do everything possible to increase sanctions, even as the ones that are authorized now are being implemented.

It is remarkable the heavy presence in that country and especially in Beirut that Hezbollah has, almost as if it is an organized crime force.

What assurances can you provide us and what checks do we have to make sure that those dollars don't aid and abet and benefit Hezbollah?

Mr. President, I already spoke earlier on the amendment-- actually, twice today, so I won't reiterate those points. I wish to thank and commend the work done by Senator Landrieu and Senator Snowe and the way they have worked together in a…