I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I know that there will be lots of back and forth about whose fault it was that we got into this position. It's everyone's fault. There are people on both sides of the aisle that made a bad…

I thank my friend for yielding. In the summer of 2011, as the country continued to see rising deficits, Members of the Congress knew that they had to do something about that in connection with the extension of what we call the debt…

I noticed that in the President's budget proposal that he does propose the replacement of sequestration. He also suggests that there still would be $150 billion in cuts in defense, not the $550 billion or so that we have otherwise.

If the Congress doesn't reach the kind of agreement that I just talked about and we have year two or the first full year of sequestration, which it would be, what kind of other changes would you have to make in the defense posture of the…

But why wouldn't it be lower if the number of troops is significantly lower?

please convey to the men and women you represent how proud we are of them and the great job that they do for our country every day.

So there will be time to transition into those----

I support the Van Hollen budget because it recognizes that reducing our deficit is important, and that fiscal restraint, spending cuts, more revenues in a balanced way, is the way to do that. But I also support it because it chooses…

A guest worker program is not a luxury. It is a basic business necessity critical to their survival.

Letter, dated March 18, 2013, from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)

I thank my friend for giving me the time. It is a vexing problem that at a time of high unemployment we have a lot of jobs unfilled in our country because we don't have sufficient training for our people to fill those jobs. This is not a…

There is discussion of a proposal that would reduce Medicaid spending by about 18 percent under the next 10 years from $4.1 trillion projected down--well, the cut is $756 billion.