Bill Huizenga

And, frankly, that is just not acceptable to me. It is not acceptable to my constituents in the Second District on the west side of Michigan.

It seems to me that when we--not verifying people's income and then suddenly, through a whole myriad of systems, declaring that triple-A probably is not the best system to do that.

H.R. 742 will resolve issues surrounding Dodd-Frank's indemnification provisions and confidentiality requirements.

At the time, Ernst & Young put out a study that letting tax rates for the wealthiest Americans lapse would cost about 700,000 jobs.

I think that is exactly what we have seen with much of the regulation.

Article I, section 9: ``The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax…

I think that is part of the problem with this, is we may be trying to pound square pegs in round holes with some of this.

The Supreme Court recently made it clear that the individual mandate is, despite what the President and my colleagues in this body are trying to say, it is a colossal tax increase on the middle class. While I'm disappointed in the…

And when that dot bomb happened, the dotcom bubble burst, suddenly they were looking for business.

And obviously, by those votes, it is rare to see 350+ votes for anything, but you know, this was a culmination of many, many years of work.

I can tell you that when we explain it, especially for a number of the freshmen that are coming in who have not dealt with this in the past, you kind of get that same reaction where it is like, really?

Well, other than UNICOR, they are obviously not real interested in moving in that direction.

Competition with the private sector by Federal Prison Industries is an issue that is important not only to those of us on the West Side of Michigan or in Michigan in particular, but really across the nation.

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to be in front of you, and Ranking Member Chu, thank you for your time and your attention.

Correct. Yeah. We all make it locally. Yeah.

Taking jobs away from honest, hardworking Americans in the process though, is not how we accomplish this goal.

Carolyn Maloney has been a long-time supporter of this initiative and worked with Congressman Hoekstra at the time.

It is imperative that the government does not unfairly compete at the expense of small businesses.

I would like to commend my friend, my freshman colleague from Minnesota, for offering this amendment, and commend him for his service to our country in the military and then what he's been doing. I think it's a valuable lesson, having been…

We don't think there is anybody who should be saying the race is done.

We think China should undertake the same policies, that it would be only fair for us and very beneficial for the dynamism of their economy.

We do take every opportunity to demand market access, and we saw, again, a very important step forward by China.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike section 212. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I just wanted to gently correct her, when she had indicated that Europe is our largest trading partner. It, in fact, is Canada.

Let us go prove to the American people that we can set aside bickering and go get something done that is going to protect the consumer and protect those who are serving the consumer.