Peter Roskam

Well, the good news is we all agree on something, and we all agree that the status quo has to change.

Last March, Representative Peter Roskam greeted education officials from the Republic of Georgia.

What we've seen from the past 2 years has been failure. I mean, it's ironic. There's nobody... defending the economic policies of the past 2 years... Jobs are job one of this Congress. It is imperative that we focus. And what we're doing…

The other vision is genuinely controlled health care costs.

Having a piece of paper that says, 'I'm a Medicare beneficiary' does you no good if you can't see a provider.

The difficulty is that this law doesn't control costs.

I think it is a straw man argument.

There is confusion. There is a great deal of ambiguity, for example, about who gets exemptions from the Administration.

I am from suburban Chicago. And I am sometimes kind of amazed at conversations that I will have with folks in the Chicagoland area who are working for worldwide American companies who have not had a sense of clarity about the fact that…

Clearly it's not deficit neutral. Clearly, it does add to the deficit, which is why I said that it's not completely satisfactory. So Mr. Ryan, as ranking member and incoming chairman of the Budget Committee, has indicated what his…

The State of Washington is cutting the working health care for the working poor? That's what we heard a minute ago. But wasn't it just an argument just a couple of months ago, Mr. Chair, that if this body took up the ObamaCare that…

Congressman, the smart move for me is to put three-quarters of a million bucks into this production line. ... Washington, D.C. tells me I'm rich. See, I'm a sub S and I file as an individual and Washington D.C. tells me I'm rich. So that…

Mr. Speaker, in his opening remarks, the chairman said that there was no excuse to vote ``no'' on this bill. Well, I want us to revisit that assertion because I think there might be. I think the excuse might be when the job creators…

Mr. Speaker, here was the opportunity for the majority to say, ``We are going to focus in on this. We are not going to put up with any more nonsense of spending $145 billion.'' And the price tag, let's be honest, is up to $400 billion and…

In a nutshell, this bill does three things then: It extends the time period for contributions to Haiti for attribution to a 2009 tax return; it extends the contribution until April 15th for contributions to Chile for relief efforts for the…

How do we move forward, and on the job creation piece in particular, you mentioned Colombia, you mentioned Panama, you mentioned South Korea. Are you willing to work with us, for example, to make sure those FTAs get called?

There really is this dynamic of, frankly, being shut out.

If they had ever met a home visitation program they didn't like, the answer for most was a resounding 'yes.'

Thank you very much for sharing your journey. It is helpful, and it is insightful.

My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what is broken and build on what works.

If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, period.

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.

I think that having a legitimate no-frills policy has to be a part of this conversation.

There's no question. I think we're all like-minded. We want to see recovery as soon as possible.

The reality has set in, and it's underperformed.