the conclusion that we all reached was it wasn't the rules, it was the people.

They know that they can't purchase as many goods today as what they could a year ago and it is because of inflation.

The weaponization of the debt limit puts our country at risk.

Given recent history, it is clear to me that the best way to do so is to eliminate the debt limit entirely.

the one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure.

Over the years, Democrats, Republicans, labor unions, business leaders, and economists have endorsed the notion that at the end of the day default should not be an option.

I wish I shared that 100 percent certainty. One of the reasons why I started working on this seven years ago was because of my increasing fear that god forbid because of our increasing political dysfunction, at one point in the future we…

the debt ceiling become a political cudgel rather than some sort of useful policy tool.

America is one of the few countries in the world that has a debt limit and none of them go through the crises that we do.

Hopefully, the Democrat Party will not remove any more from our Committee and we get to keep this same membership moving forward.

I teamed up with Congressman Jodey Arrington in the Bipartisan Policy Center to craft and introduce the Responsible Budgeting Act.

having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us.

I thank the chair for yielding, and I want to thank both Mrs. Maloney, Congresswoman Maloney from New York, the chair of the committee, and Mr. Comer from Kentucky. There is nobody covering this right now. There aren't a lot of Members on…

It is a great system. It is an absolutely essential system for the American people in our region, in the country.

Metro needs to do better.

I`m of the belief that Build Back Better will pass. It will be changed. But that`s the legislative process.

I think everybody is concerned about this. Certainly, every parent in my district and your district is concerned about this, and anybody who is concerned about the welfare of our children is concerned about it. But I think it would be…

I thank the gentleman. Of course, as you know better than probably anybody, the Speaker appointed a task force to look exactly at that issue of the $800 billion and what has been done, what has been spent to make sure that it has been…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, this has been a calm discussion so far. Let me remind the gentleman that the previous President said in February or March of 2020 that this is going to go away in about 30 days: Don't…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I would say at the outset, I believe the committee on which he serves with Mr. Clyburn is one of the committees, among many, who ought to be looking at those facts. But let me say this, because in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am old enough to have grown up and become cognizant of public affairs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is ironic that today, I am hearing the language of interposition of States'…

I understand the gentleman's position, which is held by a number of people. My own view is that employers make a reasonable decision when they say to an employee--for the sake, not only of the employee but for everybody else in the…

I thank Mr. Scalise for yielding. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed, as usual, until 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet…

Because I don't have it in front of me, and I haven't read it as carefully as perhaps I should have, I don't know the specific answer to that question. What I do want to say, however, is that we need to have kids in school. Everybody says…

First of all, let me say inflation is a serious challenge confronting American families, particularly working families in this country. I live alone, and because I am just one person, I buy relatively small amounts of food at the grocery…