So the only thing sent to the so-called death panels were the Republican lies about the health care law, and how it would hurt our economy.

I think it is outrageous that U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico have to wait until Congress will act to be able to get their fiscal house in order.

I think it is outrageous that today we have in the law a provision in the law that allows certain entities to create a corporation and call it non-profit.

one of the great ironies of my time in Congress is that the budget decisions that were made well before Barack Obama was President made by our friends on the other side, who really set the fire upon Barack Obama's inauguration, and they…

But you just sit on your hands while companies take advantage of loopholes.

But if that can't happen, I strongly urge that you look at doing something on inversions, because I don't think anyone a year from now is going to look back and say they didn't do anything, while more companies moved overseas.

We have introduced legislation, the Democrats in this House as well as the Senate, to address inversions.

the right thing to do is to reform our Tax Code, because the problem in our Tax Code is we have these huge inefficiencies, loopholes, deductions, and rates that are statutory rates that are too high.

If we can't deal with the whole Tax Code, I don't think that we can justify--I can't; I hope this Committee can't justify--doing nothing while another year of inversions goes on.

This is a far greater epidemic and needs our immediate attention.

The mismanagement, the misconduct in the Great Plains area needs to be dealt with.