Hard-working families are overdue for a well-earned raise, but I would note, again, just as I did at this same hearing last year, that there continues to be a whopping zero Republican cosponsors on the bill to raise our Federal minimum…

I don't think there is a way forward that doesn't involve some compromise on this point.

So we continue here to argue over this notion that if you simply cut taxes for people at the top it is going to be great for everybody across the country.

Mr. President, why don't we stick to the position that we are currently on and offer modest tax cuts to middle-income Americans and continue to pay down the debt?

We are committed to moving forward with a positive pro-growth agenda for America.

Time and time again, the President has refused to support bipartisan, commonsense policies that can improve the lives of millions of people across the country.

First, Mr. Speaker, I want to call attention to the efforts that have been made by Congresswoman Kuster and Congressman Guinta. When Congresswoman Kuster approached me on this issue, I was all too happy to join in. I think that the…

Mr. Speaker, 62 times we have now voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Let me contrast what we are about to do in the next few minutes with the manner in which Democrats handled the Medicare part D prescription drug benefit. We voted…

Mr. Speaker, the bill we have before us today is the universal legislator's dilemma: the possible versus the perfect. I rise in support of this legislation today. I stand with President Obama in support of this legislation today. I rise to…

I don't know that there was anything that the witness said that we could disagree with on that.

Everybody on that island is literate. That education is the gold standard of Europe.