It is unfair to existing Federally recognized tribes, such as the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who do not want to see its cultural identity undermined by legislation such as this today.

I want to thank the Budget Committee for your hard work.

I intend to introduce the MOVEMENT Act to assist in that effort.

This increase combined with the fact that I've gone almost three years without a pay increase... has us reeling!

None of us are really happy with the price we pay for prescription drugs here in the United States of America.

We should acknowledge that a cap-and-trade program is going to cause transitional issues in our economy and for individuals.

President Obama has shown that he is going to address the challenge of health care reform head-on.

Bad banks must be held accountable for their incompetence, or we will all go broke.

We need a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution.

I am pleased to see that President Obama will champion increases in spending for healthcare, education, and expanded benefits for our veterans, the elderly and our children.

For the money we have doled out to pay for the war, we could have provided: Health care coverage to every American without it.

I do not think our budget should already make an assumption about how that debate is going to turn out.

I think it is something we have to deal with in Congress.

If Americans must exercise restraint with their own funds, then government officials must be required to exercise an even higher standard when spending other peoples' hard-earned income.

This is simply unacceptable.

I care much more about the well being of Floridians then I do about Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.

Simply put, without additional American natural gas supplies, we will fail to reduce our short-term carbon emissions and instead dramatically raise the cost of energy.

I don't think that is responsible budgeting, to go ahead and assume that this type of program is going to exist in that form with that level of revenue.

We have a spending addiction in Washington, D.C., and it has proven to be an addiction that Congress cannot control on its own.

The Obama administration has proposed a 16 percent increase to the VA budget, or nearly $113 billion.

Mr. Chairman, I too share the President's goal to 'end our addiction to oil, address the global climate crisis, and create new American jobs.'

If we go forward with this idea, we will be creating an unlimited number of Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs, companies that are seen in the market as ultimately backed by the Federal Government.

I don't have one single penny in any of your banks, not one, not one, because I don't want my money put into CDOs and credit default swaps and making humongous bonuses.

There has been a lot of debate here in Congress about what the TARP funds went to: Was it consumer lending, or was it safety and soundness?

I am just going to voice my objections to that bankruptcy cramdown provision that is moving through Congress because if the ultimate objective of this committee and this Chamber is to see a recovery in the housing industry, we have to do…