Scott Garrett

I wonder whether the gentleman from Mississippi heard the gentleman from Louisiana speak about the dismal job that the GSEs have done so far with regard to what I believe both of us agree should be their intention which is to provide for…

Because I have heard the gentleman make that charge with regard to my amendment, which has not come to the floor yet and I will be glad to get into a debate on my amendment later on. But the amendment that is before us right now addresses…

And I am not naive in my politics or on economics at all. Because we know that, in business, at the end of the day the cost of anything that we buy is eventually paid for by whom? By the consumer. You can say that you are pushing it off…

I am a little bit confused. He said that I have repeated his position four times differently. I have only been on the microphone three times now. But I am also confused on his position as to whether or not there really is an MTI, a…

The gentleman, first of all, misstates the actual language of the underlying bill when he says that the housing fund is a tax on profits of the GSEs. It is not a tax simply on the profits of the GSEs. It is a tax of the overall activity.

As many Members have said when they have come to this microphone in the past, that when you come to the floor, we can all have our own opinion on these matters, but we can't have all our own facts. To use the gentleman from Georgia and…

this amendment seeks to refocus the GSEs on what is their congressionally mandated responsibility, and that is, providing for and promoting affordable housing. The amendment would direct the new regulator to require the enterprises to only…

Well, it is a good question, but it was a question that was essentially raised during the committee and answered by Chairman Bernanke at the time. If Chairman Bernanke said, yes, there was with regard to the portfolios held by the GSEs a…

Just one final point, and I do believe that the gentleman was saying that it was a tax on the profits of the GSEs as opposed to that. But be that as it may, remember, to the point the gentleman from Georgia made, the GSEs, even with this…

I am deeply disappointed in today's rule that barred the House from considering a common-sense amendment that I brought to the committee. The text of my amendment was substantially from H.R. 1544, the Faster and Smarter Funding for First…

despite the hopes of the other side of the aisle, the constituents in my district are pretty smart people. When they were paying a little over $2 a gallon for gasoline a year or so ago and now they're paying upwards of $3 per gallon, they…

I will tell you this, that when I come back to my constituents and they tell me about their health concerns, whether it is menopause or cancer or otherwise, their first concern is how are they going to address their own health needs, how…

I, too, echo the words of my colleagues who are in support of the overall funding of the National Science Foundation, and I offer this amendment to H.R. 1867, which I hope will provide incentives for the NSF to identify waste and any abuse…

I believe the other side of the aisle has mischaracterized what this amendment does when they speak of cuts and pullbacks from science and the Foundation. Nothing of the kind is in this amendment. Instead, we will still be increasing…

just beginning where the last comment on the last bill ended up, I appreciate the gentleman pointing out that this side did support a doubling of the NSF, and I was probably one of those who was there to support the increase; so no one, I…

the amendment before us, in fact, is intended to strengthen the bill and not, as the gentleman says, to gut the bill. How does it strengthen the bill? It does so by addressing the exact problem that the gentleman just set forth as what…

I rise to offer this straightforward and commonsense amendment today to provide shareholders and companies better guidance on what constitutes an excessive executive compensation package that this interventionist, otherwise, legislation…

with the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind before us this year, we all have an obligation to consider reforms that both further education policy, and also maintain consistency with our constitutional duties. The Federal Government…

I have heard someone say, appropriately so, once they saw the Democrats' budget plan, "Be afraid. Be very much afraid." And the reason they said that was because they were looking at one of the points that have already been raised here…

A tax cut is simply saying to Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer and family that you don't have to send quite as much of your hard-earned money each week to Washington. You are able to keep $3,800 of that money. And maybe you want to use that $3,800 in…

The average family has to sit down and say, this is what my income is going to be for the week, the month or the year for the year ahead and say I am going to live within those means. At the same time, what they have to do is they have to…

I will just close on these thoughts: the difference that we are seeing here between what the Democrats will be proposing in their budget and the Republican alternative budget that should also come before the floor is in three areas, I…

So around $3,800 or almost $4,000. And you think about it. What could that $4,000 be used for? If you are the family and the husband and wife sitting down with your family, well, I would like to use that $4,000 to go on vacation this year…

New Jersey is proud to be number one in a number of things. But, quite honestly, we do not like to be proud, we are not proud of the fact that we are number one when it comes to paying taxes in this country, whether you are talking about…

I just come to the floor tonight to commend you and to commend the work you have done on this area with your legislation, and also your efforts tonight to try to educate the Members of this House and also the American public as well. A…