Renee L. Ellmers

The President has submitted another bloated budget that ignores the economic crisis we are all living through under the Obama economy. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work on removing these barriers to prosperity and focus on…

Yesterday afternoon, I happily signed the conference report that was very, very well put together; and I commend Chairman Camp for the hard work that he did and my fellow conferees. This joint conference committee came together, and it was…

I think that would be devastating for small businesses and would have a very negative impact on entrepreneurs.

I thank my freshman colleague from New York for yielding. I've been watching this discussion, this debate going on, and I am once again amazed by the issue. I am in favor of this motion to instruct. In fact, I am so much in favor of it…

I thank my colleague from Illinois for that very important information. Again, as a small business owner, this information is vital to the solutions that we're coming up with here in Washington. We're not just Members of Congress who don't…

I will just echo my colleague's remarks by saying that, according to the NFIB, compliance with environmental regulations costs small businesses four times more than larger firms. Larger firms do have the ability and employees in place to…

I thank the gentleman from Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I just want to take the opportunity to say in closing that, as a small business owner with my husband back in Dunn, North Carolina, with our surgical practice, that we have faced exactly what…

I am here tonight with my colleagues to discuss the importance of small business in America. Small businesses are our job creators in America, and we here in Congress must do everything that we can to help them to be doing exactly that in…

I thank my colleague from California. Your perspective alone, as a small business owner and as a farmer, really gives us that strong idea of what we're really facing. Many of us here in Washington now are and have been small business…

Thank you, Congresswoman Buerkle, for holding this Special Order tonight, along with my colleagues on the Doctors Caucus. And thank you, Mr. Speaker, for being here. We are all here because we are health professionals. We know the real…

Absolutely. All of our homes, we all live by budgets. The American people have had to redo their budgets over and over and over again. Why? Because of the economy that we're in today, because of the cost. And yet the Federal Government…

I thank my good friend from Ohio. Thank you for holding this Special Order. The American people are ready for solutions, as you know. We are working so hard here in the House on coming up with those solutions. We will be voting on a…

It didn't balance, and it didn't pass in the Senate. Ours did not come up for a vote. So Washington continues to function without a budget. And yet, again, our households function with a budget. Mothers and fathers are up at 3 o'clock in…

Thank you so much, and thank you for leading this Special Order tonight. It's so important. You've heard from my fellow women colleagues the discussion we're having about our families, our seniors, Medicare, Social Security, and the…

New regulations require insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of premiums on direct care for patients rather than administrative costs.

Thank you so much. I would like to now yield to one of my fellow freshman colleagues who I have gotten to be very good friends with. She is an incredible individual. She is a great person to be serving with. I truly appreciate all of her…

Thank you very much. I now yield to my good friend from South Dakota, part of our freshman leadership, part of our freshman class who has truly shown her leadership. Thank you for coming today, Mrs. Noem. I am very excited to hear your…

Today we have a wonderful group of women who are going to come together and discuss the issues at hand right now in Washington and across America as we all are so concerned with what is happening to our economy. Some of you out there are…

Thank you so much for your comments. You know, it's interesting, we all have our stories, our anecdotes about our household budgets and what we're dealing with. My son is 16 years old, and he received his driver's license a couple of…

I would now like to yield to my very, very special friend, Mrs. Biggert from Illinois, who has been a voice of reason. She is a strong woman here in Congress for us in the GOP conference, and I appreciate all of her remarks, which are…

Thank you so much. My good friend was pointing out the need to be following our finances as more and more women are becoming businessowners. They are the breadwinners, as you can see from this chart here, once again figuring out the bills…

Thank you so much. The gentlelady from Texas (Ms. Granger) will be finishing this evening's comments. She is a good friend to all of us as freshmen, a mentor to us, and I thank you for coming this evening as well. It means very much that…

Thank you so much. I now yield to my other--I say ``other'' but we have many--good friend from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler), who is one of those great freshmen that I'm serving with.

Thank you. And to your point, I would just like to refer to this chart right here. As you can see, we have two individuals who are talking about how they're going to pay those taxes, and that checkbook right there, with obviously a nice…

Thank you so much. I yield now to Ms. Herrera Beutler from Washington. Thank you so much for coming today. She is one of my fellow freshmen, and we have gotten to be good friends.