I would just like to point out the louder one yells and the more one says it, as I told my children when they were little, doesn't make it true or correct. I think that we need to get down to the facts in this matter. Saying that paying…

In closing, I find some degree of irony in the gentleman's comments that anybody saying that we need to do away with regulation was stupid, because the President of the United States stood in this Chamber last month and was citing specific…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H. Res. 72. It instructs the Committee on Ways and Means, as well as nine other committees, to review existing, pending, and proposed regulations and orders from Federal Government agencies and to focus on…

The Democrats' health care law has only been in place for 10 months. Yet the problems and negative effects are already painfully clear and well documented. The American people stood against it when it was forced through Congress last year…

Today we debate legislation to prevent taxes from increasing on all taxpayers as our economy struggles to recover. We know without any doubt that virtually all Americans will be forced to send more of their hard-earned dollars to…

Small businesses are playing defense against an overreaching Federal Government. It is impeding the economic recovery and not fostering the predictability needed to create jobs. This vote today comes down to job creation versus worsening…

What would the job creators do? During this time of great economic uncertainty, this is the number one question that we must ask ourselves when bills are brought to the House floor. There is always lots of talk about fairness. Well, their…

With that visual, keep in mind I've spent the last 26 years of my life traveling in and out of the Middle East in various capacities--serving there in the military and being in and out of the region, traveling on business, and now as a…

Thank you, Judge. It's good to be with you tonight working in common cause on this issue. So many of us have seen not simply in the last 2 years or the last 4 years, but a growth of government really over the last 50 years that is…

I saw that these regulations created an undue hidden tax on America's ability to compete. It's not the idea of being antiregulation. I think standards can be very good and very helpful, but it's the point at which that compliance is…

There are so many stories that we can think of, and it comes back to this issue of having context. A very successful entrepreneur who actually started working in a coal mine at the age of 15, who is a very successful industry executive…

I'm pleased that we're having this debate today about the importance of trade for America's manufacturing sector. Given my extensive experience in manufacturing, I'm pleased to provide my firsthand familiarity with what makes business…