Brian Higgins: “Information sharing is an integral part of our Nation's security.”

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

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

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

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…