Rand Paul

The GAO recently issued a report finding that there are over 70 duplicate programs, 70 duplicate Federal programs, dealing with nutrition.

We all have sympathy. We just have different ideas of how to go about addressing the sympathy.

We should ask if private charity is also capable of feeding the hungry and do government programs crowd out private charity?

Perhaps the $2 billion we spend on OAA, if we subsumed that into another program and didn't spend it, that might be saving money.

I would also probably ask if you've got a million dollars in the bank.

Ensuring that no senior citizen goes hungry is an important goal for our country.

We must ask ourselves, if government is capable of ending poverty for seniors why haven't we succeeded?

If the sole purpose of this is to have prepared meals and nobody else is providing them, we could privatize Meals on Wheels and let food stamps buy the thing and save $2 billion, and then we really would be saving money.

Thank you for your testimony, Ms. Greenlee.

Do you think that Dodd-Frank is going to help with small businesses getting loans, or do you think it is going to hurt?

We are also dictating that the small business loans are either women or minority owned, and they get preferential treatment.

I guess the question would be how good is the pizza.

Most people think this is making it harder to get capital.

I guess the problem I have is that when you say the market fails, it to me seems somewhat arbitrary.

If so, I guess we are kind of lucky the SBA is only giving out about 1 to 5 percent of business loans.

I think we have to remember the seen and the unseen, and the unseen is the money that has to come from somewhere.

What we do not see is the $100,000 you gave to them did not go to someone else.

The President wants to increase taxes on those who make more than $250,000. A lot of those are small businesses.

This sort of arrangement, those people who are told no by the bank and then they are told yes by Government because Government decides, 'We like your project,' I guess that to me just seems somewhat dictatorial and contradictory to the…

It is really about choice, and it is whether or not we are going to say that our choice is somehow superior to the market's choice.

I am a great believer in the free market, and the thing about the free marketplace and capitalism in general is it is a place where you have voluntary interaction and people get to vote every day.

Since September 11, 2001, we have begun to treat everyone as a potential terrorist.

The thing I am still concerned about is, once people enter the country, how do we know if they are overstaying their visas?

I am concerned about the lawlessness south of our border and the extent to which that lawlessness creeps across the border.

Corruption of our law enforcement personnel is a problem, but I am also worried about their physical safety.