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…

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.