Ben Quayle

Our country's deficit is projected to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year, and our gross national debt exceeds $15 trillion.

There is a place where the right sort of incentives can be the difference between life and death for these companies.

This fiscal path is unsustainable. It's bad for business, and it is wrong.

So were the funds not necessary--did--are we overly funding these programs? Because it seems like we are actually extending and expanding what they are supposed to be doing by putting this additional money into new programs.

While paying lip service to the need to cut debt and deficits, under the President's framework, our gross national debt will increase from $15 trillion today to approximately $26 trillion ten years from now.

Unfortunately, the budget submitted by the Administration a few weeks ago continues to promote the same failed policies that have made our economic situation worse.

The President's budget includes the most government spending in history, the biggest tax increase in American history, and the biggest debt in history.

The budget will increase taxes on American families and job creators by $1.9 trillion.

This is unsustainable and irresponsible.

This proposal increases overall spending $200 billion, to a total of $3.8 trillion, nearly a quarter of our gross domestic product.

The days of us dominating totally the infrastructure of electrical development or innovation are gone.

Let us not try to go the same route that they are taking in terms of trying to shut off and put up trade barriers.

So it says that basically the precedent would be set that the President, if you follow this reasoning, could make recess appointments when the Senate gavels out.

Are we opening a Pandora's Box where we are actually--since we are getting rid of this connection that we are actually going to allow a court to interpret what Congress has done?

I think in the long term, the proper goal is fundamental tax reform with a wide base and low rates and as few exemptions as possible.

I am hopeful that we can begin to move past historical debates about industrial policy and picking winners and losers.

The goal of today's hearing is to learn more about U.S. startup companies, which are engines of both transformative innovations and job creation.

illegal immigration puts on the U.S. Government. It is about $113 billion a year.

words matter, and that actually does provide a magnet for people because they realize, especially once the economy gets back roaring again, which I hope it does soon, we are going to see, as we have seen historically, an uptick in illegal…

Cloud computing has the potential to be the next wave. Its widespread adoption offers significant opportunities for new innovation, and productivity gains for both the public and private sectors.

These small businesses have expanded innovation, helped grow our economy by creating thousands of jobs, and are assisting participating federal agencies to fulfill their mission.

we recently canceled SBInet, so a lot of the technological force multipliers that would have been in place--hopefully, would have been in place--are now gone.

In my home State of Arizona, violence and security issues along the border are, tragically, a regular occurrence.

Annually billions of dollars are being stolen through pirated or counterfeited goods.

I think you can understand the frustration of copyright holders because they are having their content being illegally sold via the top results from searches on your search engine.