I understand Congresswoman Noem has an opening statement.

I would not sit here and admit failure. I would just submit our goal is to continue to improve water supply reliability.

I don't understand how you make it work with growth and still raising taxes.

I look at this budget and it seems to be exactly the opposite: record increases in spending, biggest peacetime deficit in American history.

We are planning to do that anyway.

Those tax cuts won't pay for themselves, that they will add significantly to the deficit.

In 1945, Harry Truman abolished the excess profits tax. He slashed Federal income tax rates.

Mr. Van Hollen earlier today said that we must not jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States Government, and we all agree with that.

So Harry Truman slashed taxes, slashed spending, slashed Federal employees, and the economy grew out of a debt comparable to the one we have now?

If higher and higher spending and bigger and bigger deficits and massive government stimulus spending was the root to prosperity, I would have thought that the George Bush administration would have ended with a new golden era for the…

After the Commission concluded its work and issued this report, we still don't know why that blowout preventer failed.