Sooner or later, if you're going to try to raise revenue when it's above historic levels, it always comes with a price of lower economic activity.

Well good luck with it, because it's never generated more than a 17½ percent, percentage on tax revenues as a percentage of our GDP over 50 years. Therefore, I think you're being dishonest with the American public.

Are you interested in reforming that biggest sector of our economy?

Well good luck with it, because it's never generated more than a 17½ percent, percentage on tax revenues as a percentage of our GDP over 50 years. Therefore, I think you're being dishonest with the American public.

Sooner or later, if you're going to try to raise revenue when it's above historic levels, it always comes with a price of lower economic activity.

So, you're going to try to use government to price control.

Are you interested in reforming that biggest sector of our economy?

I don't know how that could be sold to the American public as a sustainable, healthy business plan.

Farmers and manufacturers in my home state of Indiana depend quite a bit on market access to ensure they can continue to grow and stay relevant in this globalized world in which we live.

I think it is even more important for these solutions to probably be crafted in the States where the rubber meets the road.

We are transitioning everywhere across America, where we obviously got an underpaid workforce.

I have got a bill out there, the JOBS Act, with Senator Kaine that would allow Pell grants to be used for this type of training and certification.

This is a Committee that in the time I have been here, we have covered more terrain--we really can't legislate through it, but we can talk about a lot of issues.

It needs to be fixed. It needs to be saved.

We are currently running nearly $1.5 trillion in deficits each year, and that is roughly 30 percent of our budget.

I do believe that as we move toward an Indiana--and I know other States are doing the same--toward having some type of training standards, that those training standards, once an individual has them, they will be empowered to negotiate with…

I think it is even more important for these solutions to probably be crafted in the States where the rubber meets the road.

I do believe that as we move toward an Indiana--and I know other States are doing the same--toward having some type of training standards, that those training standards, once an individual has them, they will be empowered to negotiate with…