These investments I have seen firsthand, the impact they can have on those older industrial legacy communities.

There are still two things that are mysteries to me: pro wrestling and CBO scoring.

Punishing the Social Security Administration with deep cuts because we are unhappy with customer service only exacerbates the problem.

That is completely unacceptable because the folks--and, Mr. Camp, you made this point with the case you raised--these are not cases to be processed.

we knew with pretty good clarity what we were trying to produce when we put together this legislation.

it is something that was a bipartisan product, something that doesn't happen often enough around here.

We should come together around a really difficult issue and find a bipartisan solution.

I don't think anybody can defend that when those organizations and high wealth individuals pay less in Federal income taxes than a teacher in my communities of Bay City or a nurse in Saginaw or a factory worker in Midland.

It doesn't substantially cut taxes for working families. It certainly doesn't deal with some of the needs of the most at-risk people.

I do think it would make sense for us as a body... to try to focus on tax policy that is a bipartisan approach.

any steps that we might take that would potentially limit the resources available to the Social Security Administration could have the exact opposite effect of what we are trying to address