Chris Van Hollen

May I inquire as to how much time remains. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining.

If I---- Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. The Chair notes a disturbance in the gallery which is in contravention of the laws and rules of the House. The Sergeant at Arms will remove those persons responsible for the…

What the Republican budget does is turn back the clock on a fair deal for the American people. Every person in this body today loves this great Nation of ours and believes it's a special place. We have to maintain the dynamism and…

We are turning back the clock. We're turning back the clock on progress and we're turning back the clock-- Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will suspend. The Chair notes a disturbance in the gallery which is…

May I inquire as to how much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Wisconsin has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I would remind my colleagues that the reason Medicare was created in the first place was because the private insurance industry wouldn't cover seniors' affordable care. That's what they want to go back to. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman…

This is a time of choosing. Our budget chooses to make investments in our kids rather than choosing to provide even bigger tax breaks to the very wealthy, and we choose to get rid of subsidies for oil companies instead of cutting nursing…

I urge Republican Members to read their own budget. It does not give seniors the same deal as Members of Congress. Members of Congress have a fair share formula. Seniors do not under their bill. Seniors get an immediate cut to the…

The fiscal commission said of the Republican plan it was an unbalanced approach. Our approach is a balanced approach. Secretary Gates' comments were directed to the fiscal commission's recommendations. Our proposals are in line with what…

May I inquire as to how much time remains on each side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 2 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New Jersey has 3\3/4\ minutes remaining.

We can get our fiscal house in order and do this in a balanced way without ending the Medicare guarantee. With that, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel).

The time bomb that's ticking is the time bomb on the Medicare guarantee. With that, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

The bipartisan fiscal commission--no fringe group--said that the Republican plan was unbalanced because it doesn't ask for shared sacrifice. It's a lopsided approach. This budget takes us farther off the deep end. I yield 2 minutes to the…

And that's because you don't like the answer you're going to hear. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia controls the time.

May I inquire how much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Maryland has 2\1/4\ minutes. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 7\3/4\ minutes.

Reclaiming my time, look, the issue here is what is the appropriate role and size of government. There is no doubt that we have to take what we think should be a balanced approach that involves both cuts and, as the fiscal commission, the…

I, too, remember the Voyager spacecraft and also the Apollo program and Moon launch. Great examples of things that individuals and corporations can't do by themselves, things that we have to do by coming together as a people behind a…

Hardworking American people have been paying their Medicare payroll taxes day in, day out, month in, month out. The choice we have here is whether we are going to make good on that Medicare guarantee or whether we're going to say to the…

I welcome our friend from Georgia, and I would just say that we agree on one thing: that this budget does pose a fundamental choice. And that's what we're here to debate about. And we believe that it's just wrong to be providing another…

I was pleased to hear my friend is interested in getting rid of the subsidies for Big Oil. We can do it tonight or tomorrow. All you've got to do is vote for the Democratic alternative. And, by the way, you can, at the same time, get rid…

One of the other things that China is doing is they're investing an awful lot of their resources in clean energy like solar power and like wind power. The United States should be winning that battle and not our international competitors…

Republicans originally fought the creation of Medicare on the grounds that it was socialism. Apparently, they haven't changed their minds about that as they try and terminate it and put seniors into the private insurance market. I yield 2…

This is simple mathematics. When you went from the Clinton rates for the folks at the very top and you dropped the tax rate, we ended up losing a lot of jobs because of the economy. You also lose revenue. And when you do that, you shift…

We do need to reduce the deficit in a predictable, responsible way. That will require spending cuts, and it will also require shared sacrifice. The reason that the fiscal commission said that the Republican plan was unbalanced is they try…

I would remind my colleagues that those hardworking American workers paid their payroll taxes, including their Medicare contributions, and they should have the benefit of the bargain and keep the Medicare guarantee. With that, I yield 2…