We are bankrupt. If you add all the total unfunded liabilities, we are over $130 trillion.

We created 82 teacher training programs, the administration didn't. We created 47 different job training programs.

I share with the gentleman that feeling.

We have attempted it twice in the Senate; we got 64 votes once and 60 the second, is have CRS look at every bill.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Dr. Lawrence Newman, a beloved educator, writer, and deaf advocate who passed away on July 4, 2011. In 1953, Lawrence joined the faculty of the California School for the Deaf in Riverside. He…

So would it be fair to say that cutting the payroll tax without reducing the obligations that the payroll tax pays for is simply playing a shell game over which taxes are going to pay for those obligations?

what is it that has to pick up that difference in trying to maintain what we have, which we would all agree is very beneficial and we feel that it is, you know, critically important to our families?

While I think it is probably safe to say that the budget reductions have not severely impacted the military personnel accounts, they were not immune and they affect each and every person who is serving today.

We need to ensure we are making well-informed decisions and have an understanding of what these proposed cuts will have on the recruitment and retention of our Armed Forces as well as the impact to their families.

the smart grid offers tremendous potential benefits. Modernizing the grid will make electricity cheaper, more efficient, more reliable

this is exactly the type of oversight this subcommittee should be conducting, ensuring that our government uses its resources wisely

The FY12 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Services to treat graduates from non-traditional secondary schools...

I think we all just are pretty possessive of the personnel accounts and want to be sure that those are reasonable and that it makes sense.

I am concerned, however, that the recent budget would move the additional end strength for the Army and Marine Corps into the Overseas Contingency Operations [OCO] account.

We have to pass it so we can read it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. In December, this Congress gave 20 conferees three tasks to achieve by February 29: to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million middle class Americans; to ensure Americans who lost their jobs through…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his relentless and persistent advocacy on behalf of a thriving middle class in our country and his work to ensure that we would have this payroll tax cut as well as the…

I'd like to thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Madam Speaker, this bipartisan agreement will ensure that 160 million Americans will not see a tax increase at a time when so many families are still struggling to make ends meet. The…