Brian Higgins

This committee's consideration of the Water Resources Development Act this year is an opportunity to address this issue aggressively and proactively.

Just for the record, there is only one federal law that protects people with preexisting conditions, and it is the Affordable Care Act.

80 years ago this week, Americans began receiving Social Security benefits. Social Security is a highly popular and successful program with a trust fund exceeding $1.9 trillion. With rising life expectancy since the program's inception…

A war obviously is not a good investment nor are tax cuts because tax cuts don't pay for themselves.

When you divert nearly $2 trillion since 2003 to a foreign war... we have lost considerably.

China on the other hand invested in the growth of their own economy.

The United States in some estimates spent $1.9 trillion in Iraq.

But if you look at federal programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, showing that for every dollar you spend you get $4 in economic growth at the local level.

4,559 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion and occupation. Despite their sacrifices, 17 years later, Iran now owns and controls Iraq today. 2,430 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, and today we are…

The United States Constitution is explicit: Bribery is an impeachable offense. Bribery involves the abuse of power, and the President of the United States abused the power of his office by soliciting a bribe of a foreign leader to…

I was a proud supporter of the Affordable Care Act, which will be 10 years old this March.

Did every American household receive $4 to $9,000 increase in household income that the White House Council of Economic Advisors explicitly said would occur, and on a recurring basis, because of the tax cut? Absolutely, it did not.

Did the $1.5 trillion over 10 years corporate tax cut produce economic growth beyond that which was projected before the tax cut? It did not.

What is absurd is the hypocrisy of Republican actions that created lots of bad debt that served the interests only of the hyper-rich, and not the general good.

The job creators in the strongest economy in the history of the world, a $21 trillion economy which is 70 percent consumption, are the American people.

Just for the record, the past three years, the national debt has increased from $19 trillion to $22 trillion.

This week, the Committee on Ways and Means released a report highlighting the disparities between the cost of prescription drugs in the United States and other developed nations. This report found that on average, drug prices in the United…

This Administration has made policy decisions that deny fundamental rights to migrants and has unjustly separated families for acts that are not criminal violations.

Last week, 44 attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Federal court against 20 generic drugmakers, alleging market manipulation and price-fixing. The American people's tax dollars are invested in unprofitable basic research that is essential…

A $50 million Federal investment to create a parkway opened access to Buffalo's outer harbor waterfront 10 years ago. That parkway was the catalyst for new development that started with Gallagher Beach; a new State park, Wilkeson Pointe…

Dr. Eakin, you have said here today and previously and also in written testimony that tax cuts do not, in fact, pay for themselves.

These tax cuts did not pay for themselves.

Tax cuts do not and never have paid for themselves.

Government funding is--has been involved in about 97 percent of the basic science and research toward the goal of bringing promising new cancer treatments to market.

Alzheimer's is a horrible disease. It inflicts pain not only on the afflicted, but those who love and care for the afflicted.