Rob Andrews

I thank my friend. If we don't act by January 1, there will be a $1,500 tax increase on every middle class family in this country. The President says we should postpone that tax increase so people have more money to spend, but we're not…

When Congress doesn't want to do something, it forms a committee. We tried, and that doesn't appear to be working. Then when it doesn't want to do something, it kicks the can down the road and sets up a process where somebody else does the…

Bad data lead to bad decisions, and bad recordkeeping systems lead to bad data.

Well, good morning, Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am glad to have you with us.

I think Secretary Panetta deserves enormous praise for giving this effort such a high priority.

It is an unfortunate presumption that the present state of affairs--because we do not have accurate financial statements from the Department of Defense--gives us too much bad data.

We are on the verge of making very consequential decisions about the defense budget, either by default, through the sequestration process, or through a more deliberative mechanism through the Special Committee.

I appreciate this opportunity, and I would like to thank the members of the House staff that are staying beyond voting hours for our opportunity to speak, and I promise that I will reward your efforts with brevity. This is the end of…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote was taken by…

This ends yet another week for the House of Representatives without consideration of a meaningful jobs bill. More meaningfully, though, this concludes another week where a nightmare is about to come true for our constituents. This is…

You can't figure out why we couldn't get the enterprise systems right until you have a system that tells you what happened.

Over the last decade or so, I guess longer, the taxpayers have spent billions of dollars to collapse dozens or hundreds of systems that aren't compatible into 10 that--I guess it is 10, that work.

I thank my friend from Florida for yielding. As we meet this afternoon, 15 million Americans are unemployed. The President has a proposal to put people to work modernizing 35,000 schools in America, but we're not voting on that bill. The…

The problem with the enterprise systems is the best case study as to why we need auditable financial statements.

Well good morning, Mr. Chairman. Good morning to my colleagues and to the panel this morning.

it is all about the data.

I would disagree; I would join you in asserting the fact that the program is not very flawed and should not be repealed.

Can you confirm that the HEOA does permit institutions of higher education to allow entities, such as the state-chartered, non-profit lenders, on campus for the limited purpose of providing advisory services to students and families?

I would support a bill that says the interest rate on direct loans should be calculated as follows: Take the cost of the government acquiring the money, add to that the cost of administering the program, both on campus and the Department…

I thank my friend for yielding. What I'm hearing from the people in my area, I think most Members are hearing this, is the American people want the divisiveness to stop and the jobs to start. This bill tonight does the opposite. It's the…

The middle class of this country has seen a lot of dramatic changes in the last couple years.

We talked about two Americans today. And we didn't talk about one American. We talked about the American who has a $33,000 a month drug bill who is hemophiliac, which is just stunning.

Half the people in this country surveyed this year said the American dream is either dead or on life support.

But you would admit that there are 2.4 million new private sector jobs since the health care law was signed?

And the Affordable Care Act does provide an answer.