We are $15 trillion in debt. Fannie and Freddie have been subsidized to the tune of about $170 billion the last 3 years.

Our local small business, not the government, will create the jobs and pull us out of this recession.

Washington, which should be making job creation easier, is instead creating more hurdles.

The economic recovery is weak. Small businesses are still struggling.

I can tell you that I have probably spoken to the heads of 20 or 30 community banks in my district in the last six months and to a man and a woman they all say it has the last couple of years.

Many of them allude specifically to Dodd-Frank.

It is about intimidation. It is about unions trying to do somehow through rules and regulations what they have not been as successful through Congress to do.

I would suggest to you that that is what they are doing and that this is the--the preponderance of evidence is that this is an overreach on their part.

It is not about whether unions are good or bad or what they provide for employees or don't.

He wants Congress, each and every member of Congress, to be a prop in that 30-minute theater.

The only way we are going to get this town to change the way they spend money is bypassing a balanced budget amendment, by forcing both Houses every year to balance their books.