Richard Shelby

Don't forget a balanced approach.

We shouldn't try to kill and tighten up and over-regulate these businesses, should we?

What we want to do is create jobs, sustain jobs, isn't it?

Do you understand that these rules, as we understand it, and they are being implemented, will kill American jobs, not create them?

But the bottom line is, and you know this well, is you have to measure what we are spending money for, what is working and what is not working, what centers are efficient and which ones aren't.

I have several concerns about the cost per student, program performance evaluations, and employment outcomes over the life of a Job Corps participant.

The real unemployment rate would be 14.9 percent.

The official unemployment rate of 8.3 percent does not adequately illustrate the current employment turmoil.

Our Nation continues to face an unemployment rate more than 8 percent, the longest stretch of high unemployment in this Nation since the Great Depression.

Why do public health dollars not track with burden?

A lot of us are concerned about the series of Antideficiency Act violations by your Department and the lack of a corrective action to address these unlawful funding practices.

In another area, the fiscal year 2013 budget proposal includes $864 million for the implementation of the new health insurance exchanges.

How will NIH maintain its scientific rigor and innovation when the budget request does not keep pace with the biomedical inflation rate?

It is critical to invest in biomedical research to ensure the United States continues to make progress towards medical discoveries that improve lives, make treatment more effective, and lower overall healthcare costs.

The request does not keep pace with biomedical research inflation and as a result, in inflationary adjusted dollars, the NIH is nearly 20 percent below where they were 10 years ago.

Our Nation's leading researchers will never find a cure, I believe, for the debilitating diseases that affect us without a commitment to advancing medical research.

I am disappointed that the administration has cut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The President's answer to control health spending, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ... continues to grow our Nation's deficit.

We are living in difficult times. America's gross debt has increased more than $5 trillion during President Obama's first 3 years in office.

I believe it is time to stop deceptive budgeting.

The Fed's independence for monetary policy has always been premised on its remaining nonpartisan and not advocating for specific legislative measures.

Since the Federal Reserve took unprecedented actions in response to the financial crisis, there has been a growing recognition that the Fed needs to become more transparent.

I believe it should not become an active participant in the legislative debate over the future of housing finance.

I believe when you say that you believe the Fed is most effective when it is nonpartisan, transparent, and accountable, I believe that is right.

What bothers me here, or maybe this is a concern me--will we, we in America, learn anything from the European crisis?