The Republican budget that this Committee adopted slashes Medicaid by over $1 trillion.

There were regulators at Lehmans.

The House Republican position is based on science denial.

Now what I am concerned about, Chairman Ryan, and others, is that there is too much of a faith that markets are going to correct themselves.

I haven't heard any jobs proposals from the Republicans except give upper-income people more tax breaks.

Greed is not unique to government. Greed is unique to people.

letting States try things out on their own.

We believe that the economy works best when the government establishes the rules of the road, adopting sensible standards, protecting the middle class, promoting competition, and preventing corporate abuses.

President George H.W. Bush signed the law that put in place a cap-and-trade program that told private enterprise, You figure out how to reduce the sulfur emissions that are causing acid rain.

The priorities reflected in the Republican budget are wrong.

Now, I have searched the record, and as far as I can tell during that 8-year period, you did not challenge the Bush administration's handling of the economy.

We ought to prevent diseases rather have to pay to treat them later.

Americans' retirement savings collapsed by one third, trillions of dollars, between 2007 and the day President Bush left office.

By the end of those 8 years, America experienced a net loss of private sector jobs.

Stimulus, either by tax cuts or direct expenditure, is what you need when there is strong unemployment to get people back to work.

This country was built on work ethic and character and liberty and all those qualities in past generations.

If you don't regulate pollution, the waste disposal into the air would be free.

One especially clear embodiment of the misplaced priorities of House Republicans is their hostility to clean energy.

I don't know any other country on the face of the Earth that is more masochistic than we are when it comes to sucking or carving something out of the ground.

I do know that there is a vibrant American auto----

Tell me what you would like to tell the unemployed auto workers and the industries in the Midwest that are dependent on them if we let the auto industry go down the tubes.

For 8 years, the President Bush pursued a failed ideology of trickle-down economics based on the theory that tax cuts for the very wealthy and an anything goes license on Wall Street would boost our economy and lift all boats.

I don't believe that the basic idea of Keynesian spending stimulus works.

my best advice to you is to perform a fundamental cost-benefit reconsideration of many programs in the Federal budget.

This is the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress.