Steven Horsford

Any other recommendations or steps that you think this committee should take?

So, in your opinion and based on the testimony that you have given, would you say that the SBC is an effective criteria to meet those improved communication and education provisions of the law?

This is something that is very important, is having people be more educated about the decisions they make.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate this panel and the very important information on the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are being discussed today.

I want to know why businesses in my area didn't get the same opportunities to loans.

If the former TARP banks fail to increase lending, there is no meaningful penalty.

The more banks increase their loans to small businesses, the less they pay in dividends.

I find that inappropriate.

And when I talk to my small businesses, their number one issue is access to capital.

I am a defender of my constituents who rely on Federal programs to meet the needs in our respective communities.

If we cut back it is actually going to cost us more in the long run. That is a fool's choice, in my opinion, and on behalf of my constituents.

I for the life of me don't understand why we keep having these hearings that, to take my colleague's quote that he just said, I don't know where to place the blame or where the blame has to go.

Claims that agency officials are not being straightforward with the public about their implementation of sequestration is simply not true.

Why can't we focus on what needs to be done to get our economy moving so that these cuts don't happen to begin with?

So, just so I understand, only 25 percent of the revenues under the proposed legislation generated would go to rural counties. Is that correct?

I think it provides for the opportunity for a lot of these issues to be debated.

Thank you, Congressman Scott. Again, thank you for your very hard work and that of your staff in bringing this forward. To close this out, to lay out the two options and approaches that are before us, we have what I would like to coin as…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the remaining time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to turn to two of our members on the Budget Committee, people who have heard firsthand the devastating cuts from the House Republican proposal and who have worked so…

Thank you, Congresswoman Bass. Mr. Speaker, to focus on jobs and investing in our future, the fact that this is pro-growth, pro-people, and that 70 percent of the American people support this type of an approach is why the CBC is offering…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time I'd like to yield to the gentlelady from California, Representative Bass, who, as a former legislator like myself, has dealt with these types of brutal across-the-board cuts as proposed and having to…

May I confirm how much time we have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The gentleman has 21 minutes remaining.

I would now like to turn to the physician who is in the House. We have one of the experts in health care, someone who knows how important the Affordable Care Act is and the preservation of the Affordable Care Act. I find it interesting…

These are vital safety programs that save millions of families, many of whom we serve on the Congressional Black Caucus. These programs save them from poverty, like SNAP and TANF--they are enhanced, so that those who are struggling to get…

Thank you, Congresswoman. As you indicated, in addition to the CBC alternative budget, which focuses on the jobs--maintaining the jobs we have and creating new jobs--the CBC budget also preserves and protects Social Security and Medicare…

Thank you. Over the weekend, Speaker Boehner said: We do not have an immediate debt crisis. We have one looming. It's not an immediate problem. Well, what we do have right now is an immediate jobs deficit, and we should be focused on…