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I was looking at the Tea Party list of priorities, which they call a contract from America... The number one priority is to cut the size of the Federal Government spending. The number two priority... is, do not put something in the bill…
Well, again, the American people do understand this Pelosi-Obama-Reid health care package. And, you know, I think one of the great examples of government efficiency we saw in August, Cash for Clunkers. It was a program, actually pretty…
And, you know, not to mention there will be a new tax on individuals because, you know, when you're forced to buy something, that is a tax. And so there would be less money for customers of small businesses on a discretionary basis…
Well, you know what I found though? The people were reading the bill. And I've got to say this to the people who supported the bill, they found some good stuff in there and said to me, you ought to support that. And there were some things…
And I think, at the time the export or the import amount from the Middle East was maybe 50 to 60 percent, or, no, excuse me. It was about 35 percent, and now it's up to the 50 or 60 level.
I have a feeling it was Jimmy Carter trying to get us off Middle East oil. Is that----
Well, let's just say the global warming campaign has been a great disappointment except for the Vice President's pocketbooks. He's done real well on this financially. But, you know, you think about the government efficiency. Think about…
Well, you know, it's interesting the way the Pelosi- Reid-Obama triumvirate always is coming back to government and Washington solutions because, as I see it, looking at the government performance, Republican or Democrat, it hasn't been…
With more to come. More to come. As you said, cap-and-trade, but you did not mention the banking bill. This is another financial takeover. And you know, I haven't seen a lot of wisdom behind the government-knows-best mentality of the…
Investment money is going to sit on the sidelines until the government sets the rules and keeps them. Businesses can adjust. Even if the rules are a bit excessive and high and unreasonable, business will adjust to it. But if you keep…
Well, you know, the old expression, I'm from the government, I'm here to help. I haven't found a school board or a school board member back home or a teacher in the classroom who can't spend the money more efficiently and more effectively…
It absolutely does. But the thing I am saying on this Federal Reserve spending is that neither Senator nor President Obama has spoken out against that. He embraced the TARP bill, the Wall Street bailout, with both arms. That is $700…
So special interest groups have clearly been on the inside of this and their fingerprints are all over the health care bill.
I understand there's some special interests for Louisiana, Connecticut, Michigan, and those are the deals we know about because those were a little bit more visible. But you can imagine all the other oddball stuff in there, the hospital…
Well, let me ask you this now. Who gets to look at it in 24 hours and when? Who is this group of people and when?
I rise as a friend and mourn and share the loss not just to the Murtha family, the State of Pennsylvania, but to the entire Nation, and certainly every man and woman wearing a uniform. I was proud to know Jack Murtha, proud to serve in the…
Pay-Go is now law, and I'm going to do everything I can, whether it's a Democrat or Republican proposal to make sure we don't waive it in the name of some phony emergency.
Welfare reform in general was very difficult to get passed. Lots of naysayers, lots of the sky is falling kind of mentality but during that period of time 14 million people were on welfare, and it went down to 5 million people.
I feel the same on any overpayments for farm programs. They should just all be measured with the same ruler.
I mean is the government just too big that we can't fill in the potholes anymore in the roads?
Are we teaching people to become independent? Are we falling short from that?
I think culturally we need to get into the mindset that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
One of the things that I, as a member of the Defense Committee, I'm glad that we have done the last year or two under Mr. Murtha's leadership is the war is not an emergency.
What a way to separate children at an early age and start putting this discriminatory factor on it just so that we can have free and reduced meals versus paid for meals.
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