So I will go on record as saying we need more revenue.

Sure. Tonight, I know and every one of us here knows there are a lot of older Americans who are watching this debate extremely closely who are worried about their Social Security checks at the beginning of next month, and they're worried…

Thank you, Mr. Perlmutter and Mr. Garamendi, for holding this. As John Adams, our second President once famously said, Facts are stubborn things. This chart here, which is a chart which is using the Congressional Budget Office facts and…

Last night, Speaker Boehner addressed the American people and said that if the President would just simply sign his debt ceiling bill, the crisis, in his words, would disappear. Actually, the opposite is true. An hour or two before his…

What I hear is, why do they have any right to participate in the market? It should only be people who take delivery of the product that should be able to participate in that market.

When you go to Main Street and you see the challenges that people are facing to survive these days in terms of basic commodities like food and fuel, and they just don't have any confidence in markets that, as you described are opaque and…

Well, again, that effort in my opinion is critical for this recovery.

At that point it was about $115 a barrel. He said under oath in front of the Senate Committee that it should be $60-$70 a barrel. And he went on to say that it was speculation that is engineered by the high-frequency trading of…

That is what my public from Main Street is looking for from Washington, is trying to get some sanity in these prices.

When you look at the title of this hearing, The View from Main Street, I want to thank you first of all on page three of your testimony that you are reminding the Committee that when we talk about Main Street, that the public buys gasoline…

Thank you, Mr. Tonko. I want to thank Congressman Garamendi, who did great service as the insurance commissioner in the State of California. He understands these issues intimately. I think this is really a generational gut check for our…

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I'll just say, I'm sure your offices are like mine. This is the number one issue that we're getting calls, emails, and mail on: Are you guys going to stand up and live up to your sacred duty to protect these programs--Medicare, Social…

We had a town hall meeting in my district, talking about the Medicare program. We had Dr. Rebecca Andrews--she's a primary care doc at the University of Connecticut Health Center--and she was talking about the new annual screening coverage…

Right, and thank you. Because there was so much, almost, fear language surrounding this debate in terms of whether Medicare is bankrupt, whether Medicare is going broke, whether Medicare is running out of money, it's important for people…

If I can just sort of finish, the point is that we were talking about two programs right now that did not create the deficit issue that is facing this country. We had two massive tax cuts for the super-rich. We have two wars that haven't…

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan said the following: ``The full consequences of a default--or even the serious prospect of a default--by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith…

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I just feel like you have gone to all that extent of soliciting input, and I would hope that the Department is going to be more of an engaged partner in terms of this Committee trying to come up with a solution for this industry.

I think breaking down barriers is probably the number one thing and making our programs, being sure our programs do not interfere with us making good, quality dairy products for the export market.

Again, hopefully, he will be an active participant in that.

I have to say, when Mr. Huelskamp asked the question about where the Administration's position was going to be on the Foundation for the Future, that your answer was that you are going to supply us with information, I was disappointed with…

Honestly, we want to make sure our programs are conducive to us exporting abroad, so we want to look at our programs very carefully and make sure that they do allow us to export.