His plan as Speaker...would reduce the amount of non-discretionary spending in this country to its lowest level.

We Democrats are pushing for investment in infrastructure and investment in education, research and development.

I agree with many of the comments my colleagues have made about how interesting this hearing has been, and while I joked a little bit about not restoring trust through this hearing, I think I did not really mean that there are not ideas…

We debate all the time in this committee essentially what the priorities of government should be.

To restore the trust of the American people, we must restore what the government does.

We know the investments in housing, health care, and education help American families build better futures while spurring economic growth for our Nation.

I hope going forward we can agree to start from there.

President Obama inherited the weakest economy since the Great Depression.

We had very different views on how to solve that problem, but at least we started from the same place.

So what he is doing is setting up for you to reject the proposal and then he is going to dismantle Medicaid expansion in Kentucky, take insurance away from 400,000 of our citizens, jeopardize many providers who are now being compensated…

if it is on shaky ground it is because Republicans both in Congress and across the country where they have the authority are planting dynamite in the ground under the system.