"Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith bragged that he would use the debt ceiling 'to right size the Federal Government.'"
"to right-size the Federal Government."
"I appreciate that question. I know we are short on time, but there are three things that I would want to highlight there."
"Congresswoman Spanberger and I have introduced the Preventing Improper Payments Act, and--which we prepared following an excellent study by the GAO about how we can safeguard taxpayer dollars and prev..."
"We could have done far better, as we wanted to at that time, by incentivizing people to go back to work."
"We need less government. We need more people, American people, going back."
"We must prioritize the voices in rooms like this one and not those of the Washington political class."
"The state of the American economy, and it is in danger: historic inflation, high energy bills, declining real wages."
"I just think it is un-American that we have a system like that where somebody they have worked all their life..."
"That is not my understanding."
"the Build Back Better bill that sits over in the Senate right now was green lit by Democrats on this Committee."