"The common theme this morning of the testimony that has been offered is really twofold."
"I just have been reading Bruce Bartlett's book, and I always find how liberating it is for former staffers to leave the Hill and then to write what they deem to be a more truthful version of events."
"Thanks very much, Dr. Boustany, and I want to thank you and Mr. Tiberi and Mr. Lewis for calling this hearing today on maritime tax issues."
"As Congressman Neal has stated, this concern is even greater today, as East and Gulf Coast ports prepare for the larger vessels that will be transiting through an expanded Panama Canal."
"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."
"Now, Social Security is not going bankrupt in 2036. I have not heard one actuarial suggestion that that is the case."
"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 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..."
"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..."
"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 Ch..."
"Even Dick Armey, as the Majority Leader, stated as he offered his sales tax proposal at the time, which is a bit different than what we are discussing here--Dick Armey used to say not only would there..."