Nick Smith: “I would suggest I am not making existing law more tougher, but if the court decides, for lack of a better word, that the…”

The debt is $7 trillion divided by about 290 million. It comes out to almost $25,000 for every man, woman and child in terms of their share of the debt.

And, Mr. Speaker, of course the lobbyists that come in, they would prefer that it be mandatory spending; so some of these programs, if they can write it in law that if they meet certain qualifications, they automatically get it and it does…

Well, Mr. Chairman, let me just say that this is cut from one of the largest expenditures in the United Nations appropriations, that is, to the contributions to international organizations. I think the American taxpayer in general is not…

H. Con. Res. 409 resolves that Congress recognizes with humble gratitude the more than 16 million veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II and the Americans who supported the war effort on the home front…