Mike Braun

I think this has a potential to be a very important tool to get at the insulation between the top and bottom layers.

And with as hard as it's been to hire people, it's a very tricky area when you start messing with fringe benefits.

I'm out of time here, and I might note that our current spending is now not at 20 percent. It's about 25 percent of GDP.

When I was here earlier, the discussion was about the fact that 20 percent of GDP is maybe some magic number in terms of where we should be generating revenue.

And with as hard as it's been to hire people, it's a very tricky area when you start messing with fringe benefits.

I'm out of time here, and I might note that our current spending is now not at 20 percent. It's about 25 percent of GDP.

I've got another question regarding Medicare. Go ahead? Okay. So I've been probably the most outspoken Senator that we've got a broken health care system.

So are you saying that you would be able to generate consistently 20 percent of our GDP in federal revenues, where that's not been the case other than just a couple of years when rates have been, you know, higher?

When I was here earlier, the discussion was about the fact that 20 percent of GDP is maybe some magic number in terms of where we should be generating revenue.

I plan to introduce the HAND UP Act, which would direct USDA to maintain a clearinghouse for evidence-based practices for SNAP employment and training.

We need this evidence. If we do not have this evidence we cannot scratch our heads and wonder why are there still people not achieving upward mobility in our country.

We currently are in peril because of everything we spend here in the Federal Government, just a little over four years ago when I got here, we were borrowing 20 cents on every dollar that we spend. Now it is up to 30 cents, and that is…

I think that is what we have got to look at, not thinking that the efficacy of a program is dependent upon the number of people that are enrolled in it but rather the efficacy of a program being how many people got off the rolls and ended…

We have got to have metrics that honestly say what is happening. I am disappointed that we have not been able to do better with it.

When I was here earlier, the discussion was about the fact that 20 percent of GDP is maybe some magic number in terms of where we should be generating revenue.

So Dr. McBride, do you think we can generate 20 percent of GDP in federal revenues without depressing the economic growth rate?

And with as hard as it's been to hire people, it's a very tricky area when you start messing with fringe benefits.

I'm out of time here, and I might note that our current spending is now not at 20 percent. It's about 25 percent of GDP.

It is shameful that, you know, in that part of life, when you are going through that issue, that you would have unscrupulous folks get involved and work the system.

Thank you for that, and anybody listening out there, get with your respective Senators within your states and support that idea.

The last question for me will be in regard to the Bill that we are dropping, the Guardianship Grant Flexibility Act.

I believe that freedom and choice are, you know, so important in any of this.

I look forward to hearing more about common sense steps we can take to strike the right balance between protection and freedom.

I am introducing the Guardianship Grant Flexibility Act with Chairman Casey to remove barriers by making Federal guardianship grants more flexible.

No American should have their rights unnecessarily stripped from them.