Chris Van Hollen

Just with respect to that, those monetary decisions that created or saved between 600,000 and 700,000 jobs, is that correct?

Your assessment right now is that we do not have an inflation problem in the United States, is that correct?

The economy was in freefall, spiraling downwards at a negative growth rate of 6 percent.

Thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for your service to our country during a time of great economic turmoil.

Let's not gamble with the full faith and credit of our nation; that would be a recipe for financial and economic chaos.

Not to focus on the debt limit as being a bargaining chip in this discussion.

Thank you very much, Chairman Ryan, and welcome, Chairman Bernanke. I want to thank you for your service to our country during a period of great economic turmoil.

We just heard from the chairman of the Appropriations Committee that there was no ceiling for 2011 in place. I am going to make a copy and ask the pages to distribute this. This is the Budget Enforcement Act for last year, for fiscal year…

And my friend from Massachusetts talked about this earlier, whether it is $100 billion or $80 billion or $20 billion, those numbers all have consequences because on the other side of the aisle when we say, well, are you going to be cutting…

My question, Mr. Chairman, is simple: Do you think it makes a difference to the process whether the number that ends up being here is $120 billion, which may mean a 30 percent across-the-board cut, or do you think it matters that it's $100…

The fact of the matter is, in the spring, we will begin the budget process in the Budget Committee. We are now dealing with fiscal year 2011. As the chairman knows, there was a budget resolution in effect at the end of the last Congress…

Listen, what we are doing today is the ultimate example of deeming. We are passing a resolution that deems, in advance, the passage of a number that we don't even know, and it's going to be decided by one person. We are deeming that…

We asked them, Why don't we have the number? They said, Well, we've got to wait for CBO. We are pleased to hear the newfound respect for the CBO numbers, but here's my point. That's going to happen within 24 hours of tomorrow. Twenty-four…

All the charts in the world can't wish away the CBO letter of January 6 of this year which says that the premiums will go down in the employer market, that people, on average, will pay less in the individual market, and that this…

I listened to my colleague talk about the debt, but we all know that the independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in a letter to Speaker Boehner dated January 6, 2011, indicated that repealing this bill will increase the…

That is why she was such a good role model for Christina Taylor Green--the 9-year-old girl born on that terrible day of September 11, 2001, and who was gunned down on another awful day for our Nation. Christina Taylor Green, Gabe…

I think my friend knows they did that as part of a whole tax reform package that closed the tax loopholes that your proposal would open.

On this opening day of the new Congress I know that we all hope to work together to tackle the major problems that face our country. ... The proposal before us eliminates that limitation.

You wrote to the Speaker of the House on January 6th of this year indicating that your assessment would be that that would add $230 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years

Again, I want to thank the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Teague) for this initiative and just respond to a couple of the points raised by Mr. Camp, the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee. First, this piece of the energy bill…

Americans across the Nation are increasingly interested in the contribution that clean, homegrown fuels can make to our environment, economic development, and energy security. Additionally, I hear from many of my constituents that they…

I stand in support of H.R. 2039, the Congressional Made in America Promise Act of 2009. This bipartisan legislation ensures that the rules of the Buy American Act that apply to all states and federal agencies also apply to Congress. Under…

As we approach the 9th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, I rise in support of legislation that would help the thousands of first responders and survivors who were exposed to hazardous health conditions in the aftermath of…

You would think, listening to our colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, that the great recession began after President Obama was sworn in, not recognizing the fact that the day President Bush lost office this country was losing…

I support President Obama's request to provide our troops with the equipment and support they need for their mission. We also owe it to our troops to have a realistic strategy that is worthy of their sacrifice. The toughest decisions we…