Mr. Speaker, we would be very happy in this institution if just the Speaker of the House and the majority leader could work together. There was a deal over the weekend. The Speaker of the House accepted the Senate's version of that…

Madam Speaker, I want to talk about a program that is set to expire at the end of the year if Congress does not act, and it's the New Markets Tax Credit program. I have fought for this program since its enactment in 2000 because it's a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am in opposition to this so-called Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, largely because it's neither. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp) is correct. He says there have been 16…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week Bruce Bartlett, a former Reagan adviser, who recently testified before the Ways and Means Committee, commented about the Republicans' balanced budget amendment. He stated…

Now, Social Security is not going bankrupt in 2036. I have not heard one actuarial suggestion that that is the case.

I find myself in agreement with what you said and with what Mr. Doggett said. I think that is the path forward, to have deliberative effort here.

the question would be what does Nick Brady, Lloyd Bentsen, Bob Rubin, Paul O'Neill and Tim Geithner, all have in common? And that is that they have assured this committee that they could manage the Chinese currency issue without…

But what I heard Ms. Brainard say that they have allowed their currency to appreciate by seven percent over the last 5 years, a decade, not really a note of accomplishment, is it?

the frustration is really bipartisan in nature, and it has been the repeated assurances of successive administrations, Democrat and Republican, who have suggested just leave it alone, which raises the suspicion here that the reason that we…

The problem with sovereign capitalism is that if you suggest that you can only accept a partnership up to 49 percent of the corporation, the difficulty is that it allows our trading relationship to be diminished because they get all of the…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for the nice words of introduction. Mr. Speaker, the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement is an example of how to do a trade agreement right. This agreement will improve the U.S. trade surplus, emphasis on…