Pakistan is the main instigator of the problems we're trying to solve in Afghanistan. They have been arming the terrorist groups. They were the country that created the Taliban.

No, we should not be trying to find reasons of how we could work with Pakistan. We should instead find reasons of how we can cut off our relationship with that hateful country.

No. I think that we should quit looking for signs of some minuscule message being sent by somebody in the government of Pakistan to us and take a look at what is right in front of our face, and that is that the Pakistani government has…

We shouldn't give them any more money or any more support.

I think we should try our very best to get -- to free Doctor Afridi. He risked his life. He put himself in harm's way, and we are abandoning him.

Democrats have a more optimistic vision. We believe that the economy works best when the government establishes the rules of the road.

The House Republican position is based on science denial.

By the end of those 8 years, America experienced a net loss of private sector jobs.

Americans' retirement savings collapsed by one third, trillions of dollars, between 2007 and the day President Bush left office.

The TARP bill was, of course, a huge government intervention in the marketplace, called for by President Bush.

For 8 years, the President Bush pursued a failed ideology of trickle-down economics based on the theory that tax cuts for the very wealthy and an anything goes license on Wall Street would boost our economy and lift all boats.

Now, I have searched the record, and as far as I can tell during that 8-year period, you did not challenge the Bush administration's handling of the economy.

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two very distinguished economists who are often cited by Chairman Ryan, have demonstrated that economies hit by systemic fiscal crises don't, quote, snap back within a year or two but take significantly…

But even with the rescue of the financial industry, Main Street America was feeling the economic pain as millions of Americans were losing their jobs.

It isn't government regulation that caused our economic woes.

House Republicans seem to want to return America to the era of the robber barons.

The Republican budget that this Committee adopted slashes Medicaid by over $1 trillion.

One especially clear embodiment of the misplaced priorities of House Republicans is their hostility to clean energy.