W. Todd Akin

And he did spend too much money. In fact, you and I, gentleman, voted ``no'' on some of the things he wanted to spend money on. His worst budget, though, was when Speaker Pelosi was in charge of this Congress in 2008, right here. That was…

Yes. Now an average guy on the street--let's just say they're reading some newspaper headlines over the last 18 months. Now what's the impression they get? First of all, there's this huge bailout, a Wall Street bailout. So you get these…

I know America likes to win, but I don't know that we want to do better than Hugo Chavez. That's not exactly where most Americans want to be going, I don't think.

And that's a historic fact that he was a Communist. And Obama studied under him, right?

Wait. The President approved the sand barrier plan that we've been waiting a month to get approved, and now it's been shut down by the Federal Government?

It's got to be terribly, terribly frustrating. As I took a look at it, my daughter actually was taking a biology class and she did a paper on the whole oil spill and some of the different technologies for mitigating all this really raunchy…

Well, you know, the thing that strikes me--and maybe it's because I'm an engineer and I see it this way. For most Americans I know, if you've got this big hole in the middle of the gulf and if it's pouring out all of this oil all over the…

I don't really naturally like to be dumping on people for mismanaging something, but this is so outrageous. I mean, the only thing that could top the outrageousness of BP is the outrageousness of the administration to be sitting here 2…

The thing that struck me about it was--because I heard about this sand barrier thing. I mean there are a lot of different ways you could try to mitigate the oil that is in the water. There are dispersants. You can put hay in the water…

The question that raises my blood pressure is it seems to me like President Bush was almost accused for bringing on Hurricane Katrina. Yet we've got one of the biggest leadership vacuums in terms of this oil spill every time you hear about…

Just from what we've talked about in 10 minutes tonight in terms of this leadership vacuum, we are seeing a threat to 40,000 jobs. Just in your State alone, it's 40,000. We're not talking about the barbers and the restauranteurs and all of…

The funny thing is, the very words they spoke kind of come back to condemn them. They're kind of condemning themselves because here's the Democratic whip, Congressman Hoyer, he's saying, Budget is the most basic responsibility of…

I really appreciate you mentioning Star Parker. She is really a fun person. She has a great personality, is a lot of fun. She's cute, and she is very articulate. And she has an amazing story about how the government tried to trap her into…

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate a moment here to get our charts lined up and to talk about a subject that we have been talking about for some time but which is very much on the minds and hearts of people in America, and that…

It seems like the pattern is that every single thing the administration does is to try to create an entitlement class, a victim class, a group of people that are totally dependent on the government. And perhaps the worst of all of those…

Maybe I should just interrupt for a moment and recognize, gentleman, you have really studied up on the whole oil spill situation and shown tremendous leadership there. I'm very thankful for the fact that you have stepped into what appears…

And here's the guy in charge of the budget, Congressman Spratt, If you can't budget, you can't govern. So this is what they're saying in 2006. And now we take a look at what's coming forward and we say, Where's the budget? Here's the Hill…

The Federal agency said they didn't shut them down. Yet, in fact, they weren't telling the truth. They did shut them down.

The Congressional Research Service is a bunch of professionals that are paid by the U.S. Congress and they try to be as objective as they can. They're not always right. But they at least have very good access to historical records and the…

I'm going to get to that, but one of the things when you do what you're talking about, that bull-in-the-china-shop mentality of just spending money out of control and it's a bailout for big businesses, bailout for Wall Street, bailout for…

You know, there's a certain point where if you spend too much money and you try and put a budget together, the train is going to come off the track. I think that's where we are, and that's, I think, the reason why the Democrats said, yeah…

Certainly as a medical doctor you have been looking very closely over the last year at one of a whole series of these taxes. These things effectively work as taxes. Let's just take, if you will, health care out of the equation, whether…

So local spending, the average family of four, is a hundred thousand bucks of debt, per family of four?

What is it that kills jobs? I've talked to my businessmen in my district, and I've heard this over and over: The first thing is excessive taxation. You take a look at the stimulus bill, huge amounts of Federal spending. You've got the…

I think it's important to take a look on a bar graph as to what we're looking at here. I know that President Bush--and as a Republican, I heard this frequently--he was criticized for spending too much money. And I voted against some of…