I can't imagine what it would be like to have the title of Director of Office of Management and Budget and to have had no support in Congress for a budget.

we have fought two wars on a credit card, and that post-2014 it is not going to be down to zero, but we are going to be bringing down that process of pouring money into Afghanistan.

there actually is some overlap between budget documents that have been voted on by the vast majority of the Republicans in the House and what the President actually put forward.

In exactly 5-months' time, the tax rates for every tax filer in this country will go up in the event of the so- called ``fiscal cliff,'' which most mainstream economists believe would push our country back into a double-dip recession…

the fact of the matter is we are going to spend $98 billion in Afghanistan this year, isn't that correct?

The income-based repayment program is trying to provide student loan relief at a time when student loan debt in this country now exceeds $1 trillion--higher than credit card debt, higher than car loan debt. It is a commonsense program…

having these more robust authorities through Dodd-Frank is actually going to help detect actual cases of fraud and deceit

the situation at Peregrine, in my opinion, really demonstrates the weaknesses that existed pre-Dodd-Frank in terms of your ability to detect outright cases of fraud and deception

Hopefully this measure which is moving forward in the House this week to freeze all regulations in its track, a chainsaw throughout the whole government, won't move forward because even though the stated purpose of that bill is to protect…

Well, I just want to say, Mr. Chairman, for the record, that there are a lot of small businesses, particularly people who are end-users in the energy sector, certainly in my state, who are looking forward to that date with great…

the fact of the matter is, is that having an adequately financed CFTC will in fact result in benefit to the taxpayer through enforcement actions

Thank you for holding this hearing and the witnesses for your really important testimony here today.

Last Friday, President Obama signed into law a bipartisan compromise which extended a lower student interest rate of 3.4 percent. Incredibly, the ink was barely dry on that measure when the Romney campaign introduced their higher education…

Thank you, Mr. Andrews, for your leadership in this debate here this evening. We've heard a lot of misleading comments about the so-called damage that has been done to U.S. employers as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Well, the people…

With a few minutes to spare, we just voted to make sure that the interest rate for the Stafford student loan program was going to stay at 3.4 and avoid the doubling of rates, which would have happened Saturday night if we had not acted…

Unless Congress acts in the next 4 days, the subsidized Stafford student loan interest rate is going double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Despite the fact that that looming deadline which affects over 7 million college students all…

Thank you, Mr. Polis, for yielding and for, again, bringing this issue back to the floor, which, as my chart indicates, we're now down to 10 days. When this chart was first created, it was 110 days, and it coincided with the delivery of…

Unless Congress acts in the next 11 days, the interest rates for the subsidized Stafford student loan program are going to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. This is at a time when student loan debt now has topped the $1 trillion…

Unless Congress acts in the next 22 days, the interest rate for the subsidized Stafford student loan program is going to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Despite this approaching deadline, with over 7 million college students…

Unless Congress acts in the next 25 days, the Stafford student loan interest rate will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, adding millions of dollars of additional student loan debt to middle class families. Unfortunately, the…

In 29 days, the interest rate for the Stafford student loan program is going to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. This will add thousands of dollars of additional debt costs for middle class students all across America. Yesterday…

I assure you that I will not use the full 60 minutes, but there is an issue that I wanted to spend a few minutes discussing today because it is extremely time sensitive. As the chart next to me indicates, we are today on June 1, twenty…

In a few hours, one of the least productive, most unpopular Congresses in American history is going to go on another recess, despite the fact that in 43 days interest rates for the Stafford student loan program will double from 3.4 percent…

I thank the chairman for yielding me this 1 minute. Again, all of the points about why this program, which was struggling a couple of years ago, has now really shown great promise in terms of the tests that show that a lot of the…

To conclude, again, there is a myth that somehow President Obama's executive order has swept through all the Federal agencies, and PLAs are now a mandated requirement. The fact of the matter is that is not the way the executive order…