Brian Higgins: “This committee, and this Congress, should take this threat seriously and put forth resources to proactively address it.”

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

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

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

This is what we need.