Buddy Carter

Overruns happen when scopes change. We all understand that. But when you see a continuous pattern, it does heighten the need for oversight in my opinion.

It seems to be a problem with motivation as well. In other words, you know, when I grew up, poverty was a motivation to work hard...

I urge you to stand up for us and protect us from oppressive government overreach from bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

The best thing the government can do is get out of the way. And quite often, we are the problem; we are getting in the way.

We cannot continue to allow the government to enact rules and regulations that squeeze small businesses until they close their doors.

This is a very important hearing and the way I like to put this is instead of you coming to Congress, Congress is coming to you.

I think they're ultimately trying to expand the scope of people that are covered by it, and I frankly think that the General Counsel and his political allies are interested in expanding the collective bargaining relationships because of…

You are the backbone of our economy.

I have witnessed firsthand people's careers, people's lives, people's families being ruined, and people actually losing their life as a result of prescription drug abuse.

This is an epidemic. This is one of the biggest drug problems that we have in this country, prescription drug abuse, one that has really gotten out of control.

Because as all of us know, when you're in a hole you stop digging. And we're in a hole here and we need to stop digging.

the fact is that I am a free market person. And the fact is that I believe the free market works.

I am not seeing where more government regulation is going to solve this problem. This seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem.

Give me a break. A warning letter? I mean, seriously. They know that is wrong.

I am a WIC vendor in my retail--or I was in my retail business, but do you ever audit them to see if they are indeed buying those products

Does the Ex-Im Bank, in any instance, do you ever participate in a loan that results in a lower interest rate?

But if you ask me, because you are using the full faith and backing of the U.S. Government, should we be making money off of foreign countries and foreign companies? Yes.

We all want to see you succeed, we do.

What bothers me so much here is it just seems like we are rewarding bad behavior.

Nothing more important than our children, and especially their education.

Your nation is grateful for you.

If we all honored it, we would be a better country.

It is not some political committee. It is about people.