Sam Brownback

What percent of our jobs are based on exports, Commissioner?

It seems like to me it would be a great time for us to hold a hearing with the regulators, and maybe some of the builders or financial institutions, and quiz them at length.

Every state is experiencing the downturn, but do you have more regionalized impacts?

Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman.

So you do not have any sort of regional breakout of that.

We need to halt the mad dash to big government as the solution to all of our problems.

We have been devoting trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent, long-term government spending programs and income redistribution mechanisms.

This is precisely the wrong time and the wrong message. It is not the time to raise taxes.

Now is clearly not the time to increase taxes and chase more jobs and production offshore.

This is not the time to raise taxes.

I think it is an excellent idea, and I look forward to working with the Ranking Member in putting that together as quickly as possible.

And a lot of that would seem to be built around housing, or manufacturing?

Do you break this down by region? I know you do state-by-state unemployment numbers. Do you have regions of the country that are being harder hit than other regions?

The budget that we just currently are considering and passed last night... will ensure that 100 percent of Americans can expect to pay higher taxes in the future.

Most economists agree that the housing market continues to be the primary concern for the economy.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has the 'discretion' to allow for the tax credit to be monetized.

And we need this. We need NextGen. We need to do it now.

NextGen is not a silver bullet.

The general aviation industries headquartered in my State's fabulous, global dominating industry, one that has been hurt some by Congress lately.

I believe that while it's imperative for us to continue moving toward modernization, we do so in a way that will not impose unfair costs on specific sectors of the aviation industry, or even worse, the taxpayer.

Your decisions will, without a doubt, have major economic implications for thousands of my fellow Kansans.

He didn't follow the law. He misled me completely. He was very difficult to deal with. And the six-party talks failed.

I would lift that hold if Hill would promise to include Jay Lefkowitz.

Unprofessional activities

We can't be normalizing with a country with one of the world's worst human rights records.