We need to address that. At the same time, the ability for felons suspected terrorist, domestic abusers to get their hands on incredibly powerful weapons without a background check is just crazy.

But we just have to hold people we elect to office accountable to do something, and I think these kids are going to make a difference.

I think that Members of Congress need to remember that the President doesn't pass a budget. Congress passes the budget.

In my five years here, I have not seen Congress ever accept a President's budget, whether they are Republican or Democrat, straight on.

I think last year when President Trump talked about this war on drugs, he had talked about nonaddictive painkillers because we are a Nation now of dependence or codependence.

We have run out of options as a country. We have to get this fixed.

What we really need Anderson, is we need leadership. You know, we need people who we elect to office to say, hey I'm not going to do the most politically expedient thing. I'm going to do the right thing.

We need the people we elect to office to first stand up and acknowledge that we have a problem in this country, 35,000 people dying from gunshot wounds, another 100,000 shot every year is completely unacceptable, it's a problem.

We've got to convince them to have the courage to them stand up and do what's right.

if we don't start looking at the economic impact, when we start to lose American jobs ... then I think we are missing the entire boat.

I think sometimes we forget in government that our purpose is to serve the people, not them to serve our agency.

In looking over disability insurance statistics for my congressional district in western Pennsylvania, I noticed that the average processing time is much higher than the national average.

Would it reduce the backlog? I don't want to hear about things in totality, because that is how we always get lost in this government.

I have an extremely hard time explaining to my constituents that call our office seeking help with their disability claims that taxpayer dollars are being spent to the tune of $16 million on union activities while they are waiting for a…

This is an incredible mountain we have to climb. That is thousands of western Pennsylvanians with their lives on hold for almost 2 years while their claim is being processed.

Now, as a person who has always been in the private sector, it is hard for me to understand that money is the answer to this.

This is not your problem. This is the problem with government.

Meanwhile, I just read a report by the Social Security Commissioner's Office that last year, 2016, the agency spent over $16 million on union representational activities.

How do we find 255,000 hours to spend on union activity when we have people waiting to hear their claim being processed?

As we listen to this, and again, it does come down, as Mr. Renacci was talking about, to the amount of money we have to work with and then the size of the Social Security Administration.

I think it is pretty hard to look at six months of the Trump Administration and come up with some kind of a definitive idea that they haven't gotten things done yet.

I have seen no evidence that we can't trust Canadian courts.

I believe that the way we treat this NAFTA negotiation is an opportunity for us to establish ourselves as an extremely reliable trade partner.

A lot of the jobs we have lost, have not been because of trade agreements. A lot of them have been because of tax policy and regulation policy.

NAFTA has been very good in a lot of cases, has it not?