Peter Roskam

Is the uncertainty about the future of the Tax Code government programs and so forth a negative for growth? I think it is.

I am deeply grateful for the leadership of Chairman Tiberi and Congressman McDermott, the lead sponsors of ASRA.

But it seems to me that we are really dealing with a nation, China, that from an economic point of view, is predatory and they are operating in their interests.

I will graciously reclaim my time. Furthermore, they are doing it in an orderly basis; that is, amending the Constitution forthrightly and directly. I think, in closing, Mr. Speaker, my hat is off to the gentleman from Maryland who, no…

I don't think it is true.

So when the gentleman from Wisconsin said that there is a proposal that is out there by the majority on this committee that ends Medicare, in fact, Medicare as we know it will end in 2024 absent some change in policy or some change in…

Absent some change in the program, your prediction is that that is where our Nation will be in 2024, that is right?

So that cut, just so I am clear, is not a hypothetical cut. It is not a hypothetical delay.

Your report shows that Medicare will now be bankrupt in 2024. Americans would then be forced to either endure a massive tax hike or an immediate 17 percent reduction in expenditures.

By direction of the Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 202 Resolved, That the following named Member be and is…

Illinois just raised its taxes, right? So the individual rate went from 3 to 5 percent, a 67 percent increase.

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…

If you're Peyton Manning, the football great for the Indianapolis Colts, and you come to the line of scrimmage, you have the right to do an audible call at the line of scrimmage. I mean, Peyton's a champion. Time and time and time again…

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…