Brian Higgins: “I also urge this committee to fortify the infrastructure that our communities rely on to deliver clean drinking water.”

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

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…

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