I want to welcome all of our witnesses.
Spending at this rate is unsustainable and is the reason why so many of my colleagues and I actually ran for Congress.
I think it would have ripple effects throughout the economy, to businesses, to how we borrow, to everything else.
There is a reason why there is a 15 percent approval rating on Congress and they prefer traffic jams and zombies and hea...
It really means to pay the bills you have already incurred.
The bottom line is we just have to pay all of our bills.
the Federal deficit has declined under President Obama by two-thirds since he came into office.
I think we can find bipartisan consensus on what you said at the beginning, that Wisconsin is the greatest State.
I would really like to work with you, Commissioner Davis, to develop a way to audit so that it is a positive thing.
This is really a hearing about Treasury and Treasury's, I would argue, dishonesty with this committee, this Congress, an...
The issues that we deal with in this Committee, I think, speak right to our mission statement: to enhance the economic a...
I would be delighted if we did not have to have any debates about spending because we had Barack Obama...
They have an obligation to be honest with this committee.
It is the responsibility of this Committee to make sure that the men and women who capably and courageously protect our ...
One of the great strengths of democracy, is the way that we operate in this country, with all of these thousands of comm...
We have to remain vigilant and ensure that our first responders have what they need to prevent attacks and respond to th...
Like many of my colleagues, I hear from constituents frequently about their very real fears of being attacked in their o...
I know that, for Senator Baldwin and I, this hits pretty close to home because on August 5, 2012, there was an active sh...
