Mar 2, 2011
You give incentive to people to use their own resources with American exceptionalism and let the market forces work, everybody benefits.
Tim Walberg
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Tim Walberg is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district, a position he has held since January 5, 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Walberg has focused on various issues during his tenure, including education and fiscal policy. He has been vocal about the challenges facing education in the United States, recently commenting on the decline in NAEP scores in subjects like math and reading.
Congressional Record · 2011-03-02
Mar 2, 2011
I assumed I would get you into a rant on that because I know you're passionate about that. It's absolutely true. I can show you from experience in Michigan as we went through this type of downturn back in the 1980s: too-large government…
Mar 2, 2011
It's not a voluntary tax. And in just a couple of short years, I will be capable of receiving that myself. I've not had a choice to do that. And yet the only way that we can see those entitlement programs continue, at least if we did it…
Mar 2, 2011
Well, I appreciate my colleague from Missouri. I appreciate you holding this time this evening as we can talk about those things that impact our whole way of life in the United States. We, I'm sure, understand here on the floor this…
Mar 2, 2011
And I believe that more and more people, even those that are using the entitlements, the Social Security, Medicare, understand that and are growing in their fear that unless we do something, they indeed will be hurt. But I think that you…
Mar 2, 2011
Isn't it the simple principle that what you give incentive you get more of, and what you discourage you get less of?
Feb 16, 2011
Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan will be postponed. {time} 2010 The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as…
Feb 16, 2011
Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 281, line 21, insert ``(reduced by $20,594,000)'' after the dollar amount. Page 359…
Feb 16, 2011
Mr. Chairman, currently, the CR funds the National Endowment for the Arts at the approximate fiscal year 2008 level of $145 million. Amendment No. 196 takes the funding levels back to the fiscal year 2006 levels at $124.4 million. If…
Feb 15, 2011
Forgive me. I guess the key question is, if, indeed, you came to the conclusion that we needed more time and needed to take more care, why wasn't that the first order?
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