Alan Nunnelee

The real debt ceiling that any family, that any business or any government faces is when we get to the point when we can no longer find people to lend us money at a rate we can afford to repay.

What keeps me awake at night is to see that our debt is growing, not to pay the cost of defending freedom, but to pay for benefits for ourself.

I want to thank the chairman for yielding, but more importantly for his leadership. The people sent me to Congress to help preserve liberty for future generations by limiting government and growing the economy. There's not a single law…

So to wrap it up, is it accurate to say that in the 1980s, they got the geology and science right; they just did not contemplate the politics?

We can't continue to spend this kind of money, we can't continue to grow this.

Food stamps are growing at a rate we can't sustain.

I want to thank the chairman for yielding. Everything they told us when they passed this law has turned out not to be true: if you like your own health plan, you can keep it. This isn't a tax hike. Prices will go down $2,500 a year. It…

You need to understand the awkward position it puts me in. I have people in North Mississippi that are spending $4 a gallon to get back and forth to work, and they are struggling. And they get their paycheck, and withheld from their…

I share your optimism that we are going to deal with this issue of sequestration, and I am going to be doing everything I can to make sure it does not happen.

Thank you, Mr. Lamborn. Mr. Speaker, I now recognize the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford).

Thank you, Mr. Harper. Now I would like to call on my friend Mr. Lamborn, the gentleman from Colorado.

Mississippi experienced a great loss this week with the death of Governor Bill Waller. He served as our Governor from 1972 to 1976, and he provided steady leadership during tumultuous times in our State. He believed that Mississippi should…

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Today the majority of Americans don't believe that successive generations will enjoy the quality of life that they've enjoyed, and a lot of that fear is driven by unrestrained Federal Government…

The House has before it today an important question, but it's not a new question. It's a question of old. This day I put before you the choice of life or death. Today we choose life.