Brian Higgins

I think that would be a great public service the Congressional Budget Office could provide to the United States Congress

Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.

I am so encouraged by the direction this Congress is taking from a bipartisan perspective to push forward, quite righteously, the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate WEP and GPO.

The American economy is--we are 25 percent of the world's economy.

We are not moving forward, we are going backwards.

It is Congress that is not fulfilling its mission to Social Security beneficiaries.

It is not only inefficient, it is awful, and it is inhumane.

You need $500 million more.

This is what we need.

You should be indignant about what Congress has done to this budget that really serves our people.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Donalds The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Even inflation, which this month was at 4.1 percent, is lower than the global average of 5.2 percent.

Biden created 14 million jobs.

The budget deficit...has dropped to 5.5 percent at the end of last year.

Biden's economy grew three times the average pace of the previous economy.

America remains the world's richest, most dynamic, and productive economy.

Unemployment is at a stunning low, 3.4 percent.

I just simply want to say--and I have heard very clearly your testimony, it has been very valuable to me in terms of learning a little bit more about this extraordinary program that, by the way, lifted 50 percent of American seniors out of…

Seventy percent of American debt is owed to Americans.

You can't continue to hold the American people hostage because of a debt situation that you helped create.

We paid $400 billion down on the national debt. That kind of growth was only made possible by the investment that this Congress made in the American people and the growth of the American economy.

Yes, the debt is a problem, but the way that you deal with that is through economic growth.

What is not talked about as much is that American debt in the form of Treasury bonds, bills, and securities is the greatest, safest investment in the world.

Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on its debt.