Cliff Stearns

In March of 2006, then-Senator Obama was on the Senate floor and this is what he said: ``The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Increasing America's debt weakens us…

I just want to make it clear that we are on record of asking for a hearing on this.

I would interpret it different. That is your--my interpretation is people do not want the President's health care plan.

Regulatory reform has been a priority of this subcommittee in the 112th Congress and will remain so as long as Americans suffer from prolonged high unemployment and sluggish economic growth.

This seemed to be a theme of the administration. If a study or report comes out that they disagree with, it is denounced as inaccurate or labeled an outlier, even if the administration actually commissioned the study themselves.

A 2/10 study commissioned by President Obama's Small Business Administration places the total annual compliance cost of federal regulations at $1.75 trillion, a number that trumps the record federal budget deficit.

I think it is mentioned by the chairwoman, the FTC recently reported 9 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft.

Lost in the hyperbolic statements and calls of doom-- ``if Congress does not raise the current debt ceiling''--is the real problem that our Nation faces: the out-of-control spending that has become epidemic here in Congress. No doubt a…

I certainly would want to work with you to find out perhaps what really happened and perhaps to extend a hearing on this on my subcommittee.

I think this is really a very important issue for you and this subcommittee to make a stand, get the bill through the subcommittee, through the full committee and try and get it through the House.

If the data security bill that I had in the 109th Congress had actually passed... to prevent unauthorized acquisition of that data.

We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.

The President's statements are pretty bold and they are pretty dramatic and they are pretty clear.

Earlier this week, Jim Matheson and I introduced H.R. 1528, the Consumer Privacy Protection Act. Our legislation attempts to strike the proper balance between consumer privacy and innovation by requiring entities to provide consumers, in…

It's a shame the gentleman from Massachusetts is not here. I appreciate always when he speaks his exclamatory speeches, high emotionality. His idiosyncrasies that he brings to the House floor are obviously humorous. But I think he and the…

Let me just bring to the attention of this side of the aisle that some of the issues you are talking about, transparency, moves into privacy. We hope in the near future we do have a privacy bill, but I think some of the things you are…

I just finished a hearing as chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Committee, and we had the administration up to talk about some of the programs that they're handing out money on; and one of them is giving out money to large…

We need to put politics aside and work through these barriers to make 'Made in America' a proud statement.

If the Administration is sincere about this goal to boldly increase our exports, their actions should be just as bold.

Some new statistics have just come out on government wages and salaries in this country. Government payouts, including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance, make up more than one-third of total wages and salaries of the…

Last week, as chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce, I held a hearing on the problem of Medicare fraud. This is not a new issue. It has been a continuing problem with Medicare, and I have been…

Let me just mention a little thing more about my amendment. Basically, as I've told my colleagues, this is a cost overrun on renovations in the U.N., and more importantly, with this huge economic downturn that we've had, I think we need to…

My amendment, my colleagues, is simply to say that the United Nations is a very valuable building and the renovations that are occurring right now are necessary, but-- Now, the renovations that are occurring on the U.N. ultimately are…

I would just close by saying it is not appropriate for the unelected FCC to regulate interstate communication services on barely more than a whim and without any additional input from the United States Congress. If left unchallenged, this…

The gentleman from New York has indicated that this is the big guys against the little guys. Actually, he has it wrong. But if the government steps in and regulates the Internet, then really the little guy, the upstart company, won't have…