Rob Andrews

Congress must remain engaged, and that is why I am concerned about surrendering some of our authority in this area.

This has been a very edifying two panels. Thank you for your contributions to it.

The end of the bargain that is coming to them is that they are guaranteed, in some cases, a pension check for the rest of their lives.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think Dr. Heck's question is well founded.

We hear that there is agreement over some basic principles here. Just about everyone thinks we should extend the middle class tax cut for the rest of this year. Just about everyone thinks we should make sure that doctors don't see a nearly…

We just heard from Representative Mike Conaway and Representative Rob Andrews, the Chairman and Ranking Member of our Defense Financial Management and Auditability Reform Panel.

And to those who say they have better ideas, let's put their ideas on the floor. The American people did not take the month of January off; neither should we. Let's put these job-creating proposals on the floor, put them to a vote and do…

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker and colleagues, as the Congress meets for the first time in 2012, the people of the country are burdened by a deficit of jobs, a deficit in our Federal budget, and a deficit of hope that things…

In just over 2 weeks, Americans who are fortunate enough to have work will get their first paycheck of 2012, and the paycheck will be lower because there's a tax increase. The question before the country today is: Should we stop that, yes…

What we ought to be saying is we can hold down the taxes on the middle class, we can fairly extend benefits for the unemployed, we can make sure our doctors will continue to see our seniors and our disabled people if we ask the hedge fund…

I rise with profound respect for our Constitution and for my colleagues and friends who care deeply about the impact of this bill on that Constitution. It is because I have considered those issues that I would respectfully disagree with…

For many American families, they will only be able to celebrate this holiday if they forget about the burdens of their daily lives. Some are about to lose their jobs, others are about to close their businesses for the last time; some are…

I'd like to thank the chairlady from Florida and the ranking member, Mr. Berman from California, for their very forceful and effective advocacy. Iran made a choice to ignore international standards and comity and secretly develop a nuclear…

I thank my friend for yielding. Ninety-eight days ago, the President of the United States came to this Chamber and proposed to create jobs by cutting taxes for middle class families by about $1,500 per year. For 98 days, the majority…

25 days from now, if the Congress doesn't act, every middle class family in this country is going to have a $1,000 tax increase. Twenty-five days from now, if the Congress doesn't act, doctors who take care of our Medicare patients are…

The Members of the House should listen to the voices that have been raised about the jobs crisis in our country. These voices are speaking loud and clear. We should also listen to the quiet voices of desperation of so many Americans who…

For years the American Dream has been based on a basic deal: If you go to work every day and work as hard as you can, you will make a decent wage. If you get sick and have to go to the hospital, you'll have health benefits that mean that…

As we stand here today, I would like us to pause for a moment and think about an American family who is not here. The husband works in a Home Depot, the wife works as an administrative assistant in a hospital, and they make together about…

I thank my friend for yielding. My friend from Minnesota, the chairman of our committee, says that Congress shouldn't be picking winners and losers. I think the Congress has already picked a lot of winners in the last number of months…

I thank my friend from Georgia for engaging in good spirit in this dialogue. I would simply want to make it clear: I think it's the position of our party very clearly the House should vote on whether to avoid this thousand-dollar tax…

I am most certainly not in favor of that. I would frankly make up for the lost revenue with a surtax on people making more than a million dollars a year to cover it. Let me ask the gentleman another question. I understand that there are…

I would just ask the gentleman, then, if he is prepared to tell us whether the majority will put on this floor before the 31st of December a bill that suspends this tax increase on middle class Americans.

Those income tax reductions, of course, were extended to December 31 of 2012. So there's not an urgent imminence to addressing that issue the way there is with this. I would just again put the question this way. I fully understand there…

When the sun rose over the country this morning, a lot of Americans got out of bed to go to a job that doesn't pay them enough to support their family. They're working part time to pay full-time bills. A lot of other Americans who have…