Andy Harris

On those lists of questions of those $716 billion that's basically going to be transferred from the Medicare program to pay for the President's new health care reform bill, that doesn't even include the over $300 billion to cuts in…

It is a shame that the Democrat controlled Senate voted today to adjourn for over a month, and they haven't even voted on a budget for 1,191 days. Mr. Speaker, this is a $3.5 trillion enterprise, and the Democrat- controlled Senate, led by…

Without government subsidies, without government mandates, these electric vehicles would not--would fail in the marketplace

The President recently identified outsourcing and foreign investments as a major issue we should be considering.

To be honest with you, there are a lot of folks who think that the stimulus money wasn't spent very well.

We should always remember that we are spending taxpayer money.

I hope that that is the sentiment of everyone who sits in Congress, to be honest with you, that we don't use Congress for scandal mongering.

What I don't support and will not support, and I think others should not support, is using Congressional oversight for scandal mongering.

I think that we should not just act as partisans in our oversight. We should act as the eyes and ears of the American people.

I do support the important role of Congressional oversight, that is, it is an important check in our system of checks and balances on the Executive Branch of government.

Its importance and timeliness is magnified significantly by the fact that the President has proposed a new $1 billion mandatory program.

I hope today that DOE can provide its response to Vehicle Technologies Program related management concerns.

I would like to state at the outset that I am strongly supportive of advanced vehicle technologies if the government role is carefully limited.

I thank my colleagues for their participation, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I thank my colleague, the obstetrician from Georgia, who points out that on the graph, as the gentleman from Louisiana showed before, Medicaid expenditures now exceed K-12 education. And as the other chart we've seen shows, we're over at…

If the gentleman would just yield for a very brief question. Do you think that's the kind of health care that the women of America deserve?

So what you're saying is that you had patients under TennCare who had insurance cards. You just couldn't find anyone to take care of them. Mr. DesJARLAIS. Right, which is exactly what we're going to see under the President's plan. You're…

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I will yield to the gentlelady from Wyoming.

The gentleman is absolutely right. What we have done is we have once again made promises to people we know we can't keep. We know because that graph--and I'll yield to the gentleman to answer the question--that's from the Congressional…

The gentleman is correct. Every single program that we have, whether it's the elderly with health care, the elderly with Social Security, whether it's food stamps, whether it's unemployment insurance, whether it's to do the things this…

What do you have to hide? Why wouldn't you want to show the American people what you use in your deliberations?

I think that is as responsive as I would expect from the most transparent Administration.

If we are going to bring down this $1.5 trillion worth of deficit spending that we have every year, we have got to find ways of making those type of savings as represented by SpaceX.

But the satellite was five years late, and some of the instruments are not working as well as they should be.

The launch of the NPP satellite last October was certainly an achievement, and NOAA and NASA are to be applauded for the successful launch.