Michele Bachmann

We're coming to a time that is very serious where the spending is so out of control. We don't want the American people to go into a situation where they're taxed at such high level that it will mean a drastic reduction in their standard of…

I just spoke with the Democrat before I left Capitol Hill. And he is very serious about thinking about signing on because he understands this is not political. It's about listening to what people have to say to us.

Yes, Mr. Speaker. We should not use the arcane rules to somehow exempt ourselves as a Member of Congress from our own pay increases and that of the non-uniformed Federal offices under the responsibility of tightening our belt.

If the gentleman will yield, just recently the President made an announcement on the nuclear strategy document that he will also change the language and no longer allow the use of the term ``extreme radicalism'' in the document as well…

We saw this week that our country took a very historic line and broke it, and it was this: We broke the $13 trillion mark in debt for this country. This is real money, and all we have to do is know the comparison. Think of dollars in terms…

Today this Congress had a chance to save our American taxpayers $2 billion next year by halting another scheduled pay raise for Federal employees, but this Chamber refused once again to listen to the cries of the American people. Today, we…

Thank God, if I could just reclaim my time, that we are standing in the well of the United States House of Representatives, one bastion left for free speech, at least I hope so for the time being.

The motion to recommit proposes to add a new amendment to the bill freezing the rate of pay for ourselves, Members of Congress, and for the non-uniformed Federal employees. The amendment relies on the definition of civil service provided…

My amendment is founded on the principle that Congress has a certain fiduciary duty and responsibility to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not wasted on ineffectual and inefficient government programs. My amendment will require the…

Also, remember, that's if every American is paying taxes and paying the debt. But one thing that we saw from this current filing of income tax is that 47 percent of Americans paid no taxes. Now, that doesn't mean that 47 percent of…

I thank the gentleman from Iowa for laying out the history of where we are today in terms of the financial problem. Really, the concern that I have on the bill that is being debated over on the Senate side right now is that it seems that…

That's right, and there is something else to know on secured creditors. Usually, secured creditors take a lower interest rate. They get paid back at a lower rate because they are first in line. When Chrysler went under, what happened is…

If I could just add with Robert Rector from the Heritage Foundation, he also did a study on welfare and increasing use of welfare in the United States. The trajectory that we're on with the growth in welfare is also unsustainable. And we…

And you've got a home mortgage, a home mortgage that is subsidized by the taxpayers. Because, remember, this was a part of the problem with the amendments to the Community Reinvestment Act in the 1990s, and it was this: An individual could…

What we have witnessed in the last 18 months is effectively an economic coup. Because as you have correctly stated with Fannie and Freddie, today the Federal Government owns over 50 percent of all private home mortgages in this country. So…

It even gets more minute than that because under the bill that's being debated right now over in the Senate, if a person has a transaction where it's four payments or more, so presumably if you buy braces for your child and you are paying…

Yesterday was a historic day. We saw the passage of the job-killing government takeover of health care, 18 percent of our economy. But we want the American people to know that today many of us are introducing the identical legislation. I…

The overwhelming number of people in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District want nothing to do with this government takeover of health care.

8.5 percent, it could go that high. So that is what the $1 trillion was supposed to do. The $1 trillion was allocated. We saw unemployment soar above 8 percent, soar above 8.5, and now Americans are sitting at about a permanent level of…

And the poster says, as my colleague Steve King is pointing, "Why does the Democrat bill subsidize health insurance companies?" Here is the strong arm of the IRS shaking money out of the average American taxpayer and sending that money…

I just wanted to focus for context purposes, to begin with, on what the President has demonstrated thus far that his understanding of economics has been when he had been in the United States Senate. He was an advocate for the $700 billion…

And if I could just add, I think that it's so important that you have offered this opportunity for us to honor and recognize Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mattie Brinkerhoff, Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alice Paul…

This is the first issue that all of us have to deal with, the issue of life, going all the way back to the Declaration of Independence. If you look at the Declaration, the inalienable rights, the rights that no government can give, that no…

This weekend I was with Congressman Gohmert, and one of his constituents walked up to me and handed me another thousand signatures that she gathered to sign the Declaration of Health Care Independence. Just in her sphere in east Texas, she…

This is from Cheri Hamilton, who said, Stop trying to destroy this country. The health care system can be fixed without a takeover. Listen to the American people. Stop this socialist agenda. Ted Mesjak: ObamaCare is a can of socialized…