Bruce Poliquin

The national debt--I am pivoting a little bit, Mr. Powell--is about $21 trillion. It is horrible.

I know deep down in Mr. Young's heart, he is a Mainer at heart. I know that. I have been to Alaska. It is a good State. Maine is a great State, and, as a result, I know Mr. Young is going to support this amendment.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE __--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. _01. STUDY OF FEES CHARGED TO LOBSTER…

I happen to believe, and I know you do too, Mr. Carson, that the role of government is to help people escape poverty, not help them become comfortable in poverty.

I have never seen a part of our Federal government, to be very honest with you, Mr. O'Rourke, who is--tries to be less accountable than the VA.

I would encourage you to discuss them in the most energetic and passionate way on behalf of those that should not be designated SIFIs.

My primary constitutional responsibility, Mr. Novy, is to protect our families and there is no one who is more pro jobs, pro business, pro national security, pro protecting our families than I am.

If we start raising taxes, if we start layering more and more regulations like we have been the last 10 years, we are going to be growing at half what we are growing at now.

We need to make sure all of our rural hospitals in the State of Maine and throughout the country get paid, and this bill says if they are not paid within 30 days, then interest starts accruing on that. This is a great win for our veterans…

I want to see the data. I want to see what grants were issued, who did the research, how much money for the research, how much money for the overhead, who these investigators are, and what their record is of awarding that administrative…

Here is why this matters, Dr. Clancy, and everybody here. Is that we have a situation where there is an inherent conflict of interest...

Now, up in Maine, where I come from, that is a conflict of interest. And here is why that matters.

If we are looking for research on veterans who have problems, and we have mountains of data on what their ailments are, it would make sense to me that we use that information.

But 30 years ago, you folks were created by Congress specifically to solve this problem, correct?

Every dollar counts.

One of the biggest gifts we can give to our kids and grandkids is taking care of this spending and this debt problem so they are not saddled with a mountain-load of this stuff. America, today, Mr. Speaker, is watching. Who has got the…

Who says that a terrific Representative from one of the most urban areas in the country, Los Angeles, California, cannot get together with a Representative from one of the most rural parts of America up in the great State of Maine? I thank…

I co-sponsored--the first bill I co-sponsored was a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution to finally force Washington to live within its means, stop balancing our books and start paying down the debt.

Can you commit today, Mr. Powell, that you will do everything humanly possible within your purview to make sure that the regulatory burden for our small financial institutions are controlled and hopefully repealed?

I am really concerned about some of the folks on the other side of the aisle today saying something to this and I will paraphrase, I hope I get it right that they are concerned about any adjustments to Dodd-Frank when it comes to…

One of the roles of Government as I see it is to make sure that we create laws and rules are made such that our families are helped in such they live better lives with more opportunities and more freedom.

Can we get a commitment from you, sir, that you will do everything humanly possible to help rural financial institutions?

Can we agree that the best way to deal with this issue is to codify in legislation the reforms we need to the SIFI designation process?

The two reasons why the economy is doing so well is the great work in repealing red tape and also the tax cuts that have been recently enacted.