Clearly this hearing is important because job creation is bipartisan.
I have introduced the bill H.R. 2854, the Employer Free Choice Act and used the word voluntary.
We are about fairness for the taxpayer.
It is very easy, in a hearing like this, to beat up on the executive branch for different problems with regulations.
I just think that, you know, when you look at this and you see that someone at DOE was asking those questions and was looking at that modeli...
We would rather people have lesser amounts of indebtedness than more amounts of indebtedness.
I just think as we had one witness talk about the fact that those with good credit through the GSEs allow those people with bad credit to ge...
We are certainly creating another generation of gridlock among students in America.
I think there is probably going to be an attempt to try to not let that drop.
But that is something that, again, I think much of what we do here is to try to create the environment and let the private sector generate t...
It seems to me that what we have done with our housing policy is we subsidize housing so much that we actually drive the price of it up.
I think people could agree on that.
There is no question that we subsidize the housing industry.
Our presence there probably has created the positive developments that we've seen in Afghanistan.
what we're doing there financially is highly distortive to the culture
Is there something about the Afghan culture itself, the culture, that causes it to be a more corrupt culture than the culture we're used to ...
It seems like every so often our reasons for being in Afghanistan evolve to a different reason.
I think we're in Afghanistan today, we're there because we're there.
