Rick Allen

The state of South Carolina has an agreement with the Federal Government to store that waste.

I want to thank the committee for allowing me to provide this testimony and highlight issues that are critical to the 12th Congressional District of Georgia.

The problem is this whole process of health care is so complex that you have a, if you are--out-of-network, or in-network, you know, deductibles, and, you know, is your doctor in-network? I mean, you were supposed to be able to keep your…

Surprise medical billing has become a significant concern for Georgia families.

My home State of Georgia has been named as the best State to do business in the last 6 years.

It is important to find out what has actually got us to this point, and then try to fix it.

I had an amendment on the past bill markup to somehow put financial, actually, education into the student loan program.

Eighty percent of the farm bill is funding the Safety Net Nutrition Programs. It is not greedy farmers.

I had to be here this morning, and when I say I had to be here I was not going to miss this because one of my favorite people are here.

Thank you, Chairwoman Bonamici and Ranking Member Comer for allowing me to cross committees.

Every time, I mean, when I get up in the morning I think about economic growth and creating jobs.

So for us to sit here and say we are going to solve your problem is, it is troublesome because some people say it might take 400 million years to pay off that debt.

I believe any proposal must have, you know, some structural reforms that in rather, you know, this--a band aid approach is just not going to fix a hemorrhaging problem.

We set, you know, in a similar meeting and, you know, it looks like we have made little or no progress and a lot of promises were made and not kept.

In other words, our children's, children's, children's, children's, children's, children will pay for whatever we do to try to fix this.

I am grateful to today's witnesses for making the time to be here, to share your experience and expertise on this emotional and difficult issue.

Congress has a responsibility to protect students and school staff in the classroom, while also helping school districts build healthy school climates.

As far as--well, my parents were farmers and educators. My dad served on the Board of Education. We lived education.

Failure to provide funding that secures spent nuclear fuel will only cause further financial hardship on the American taxpayer.

I urge this subcommittee to seriously consider and support this request.

Signing the front of the paycheck and providing folks with a good job has been the greatest honor of my life.

So the government said we are going to raise wages, and your wages went down?

This one size fits all, top down government regulation will destroy millions of hard-earned jobs and turn our growing economy and wage growth into decline.

I am very concerned that doubling the Federal minimum wage will put a halt to a lot of that progress and will really gum up the works of job creation for workers without a lot of skills and without a lot of experience.

My Democrat colleagues don't want to believe that we can produce economic opportunity in concert with growing wages without the government interfering.