It's bad immigration policy. It's bad for our economy. It's not humane. It's bad for Americans. And then I think its bad politics as well.
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I never expected that CMMI was actually going to deliver the cost savings that was promised.
Literally, we will save the American people $100 billion by adhering to law that was enacted, signed by the President of the United States.
A continuing resolution passed right now, a full year continuing resolution, worded appropriately, that talks about it being a full year appropriation, would save the American people about, give or take, $100 billion.
That passing of a continuing resolution, a full year CR that would basically come in somewhere around the $1.564 trillion level, roughly, that that would be significantly lower than the $1.59 trillion cap in the FRA.
I appreciate my Ranking Member making the comment about fiscal responsibility, and the culture of fiscal responsibility is ours, is our mantle to bear and our goal for the taxpayers of this great nation.
For sure. It starts at the top, they say, right?
We have a growing amount of improper payments, and what was $150 billion a year prior to COVID is now $230 billion a year.
That is a massive dereliction of oversight responsibility.
We have 40 percent, roughly, of our programs, departments, and agencies that have not been authorized that we continue to fund.
We haven't had an oversight hearing, which is our congressional and constitutional responsibility, in six years.
I don't question the intentions of anybody in here, including Earl Blumenauer over there.
I hope that we can find a way to restrict your travel funds, to restrict your pay, to fence off some money to your organization, something.
It is apparent that HHS has willfully ignored direct requests from this Subcommittee and deliberately sent documents that are intended to obscure the truth rather than uncover it.
Congress and Federal agencies are supposed to serve the American people, and this is what frustrates us when we don't get answers.
The motion is agreed to and H.R. 7129 is adopted and will be reported favorably to the House.
I think this is about as perfect as going to get right here for the people of this great country that we are doing things to help Main Street America.
I represent Utah. Utah is the home to a lot of women who are entrepreneurs, and I want to make sure that they can compete and succeed.