Robert Ehrlich: “Harking back to our visit from the former First Lady, Nancy Reagan, and her testimony before our committee, was it not…”

I agree with the gentleman and I really think the gentleman has hit the bottom line. At some point in this country, in this very House, the collective decision was made to punish success and punish risk in the capitalistic society. When…

Now, with respect to the substance of this debate, I have a question for the chairman, because I think it is very important that people all over the country understand exactly what we are talking about, and the folks that we are expecting…

Only in this town do people think that when we raise taxes we generate additional revenue. It just does not work that way, and the gentleman's numbers speak for themselves. History, the empirical evidence, speaks for itself.

We would agree with what the bill says, community work for residents who are not already meeting the welfare reform requirements.