I think the reliability of a trade partner, which has been brought into question, is also at stake right now.

We cannot afford for these things to do that, and I know it was not necessarily on your watch, but that does not alleviate the responsibility going forward to make sure that it does not happen worse on your watch.

We are a bipartisan Committee, and we are about the people's work.

I, with the Congress, with the people of this great Nation, will not be intimated by cowards.

It is imperative that we continue to reinvest in this program because, as most people say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

There is a need for pro-growth tax reform? And, without a doubt, everybody says: Yes, there is.

I am just really concerned that a country that is going to have record revenue still can't come close, can't come close, to paying its spendings.

I can't overemphasize how important this is because, as you know, Secretary, once we lose that cotton infrastructure, you just can't go back and re-get it there.

I know both of you come from a lot of experience in the private sector.

Quite frankly, I don't mind spending money as long as it is a positive return on the investment for taxpayers.

It is better to do a controlled burn and put too much smoke or pollution in the air than to have an out of control wildfire.

If we are talking about this and if a big part of the individual mandate was going to cover the cost of all these things, the question is did it work? Is there anybody of the three of you that could say this was--it was well intended? I am…

They are not going to lose, by the way, their insurance.

None of this makes sense to me economically. Why would anybody stay in the insurance business to lose money?

I don't like to include Medicaid as insurance because Medicaid is a welfare program.

The number one problem that people have who are trying to hire people is finding people who are qualified to do the jobs that are available today.

It is the low participation rate that is killing us.

A dynamic and robust economy is the only thing that fixes this, right?

Get people back to work. Give them a chance to get up in the morning and go to work.

Are we getting them ready for any jobs that are out there?

the private sector can't possibly be run the way a government does.

I really don't understand how people can indulge in deficit spending, not year after year but decade after decade.

It is our ability to stick to the message and stick on course and make sure that we fight this to the very end.

it is about the money we spend that is used inefficiently and ineffectively.

I spent almost every day at town halls and those type of things with local folk and small businesses.