Pat Ryan

But the targets will be the same. So the emission targets will be as aggressive.

Are we risking our credit? Are we going to have a problem selling our bonds?

But that means our rates will then go up because people will leave Treasuries, yeah?

From being on Ways and Means for a number of year now, what ends up happening is we might pass a MedPAC recommendation or two and what we find out is Congress then takes that away because of political pressures and time.

That is what a lot of analysts are saying is going to be the next shoe to drop, is the commercial real estate market.

I have a great concern that the administration and Congress have exploited the current economic crisis, and the fear and diverted attention of the American people, to justify rushing through a sweeping and possibly irreversible expansion…

We are beginning to create a new entitlement without really actually paying for it.

this is a worrisome picture. This is a grim outlook for the federal budget.

The current system is not getting costs down. We are not attacking the root cause of health inflation.

The bottom line is that we need to make absolutely certain that we provide the necessary resources for the defense of our Nation.

I find it incredibly troubling that defense spending is seemingly the only place in which this effort was made.

Providing for our Nation's defense is the primary responsibility of the Federal Government.

Thank you very much, Chairman Spratt.

I have got to say, I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for your passion for issues.

Across our country, the Federal highway and transit spending have played a vitally important role in the growth and productivity of our economy.

This budget is so far to the left of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget that, on an apples-to-apples comparison, the 9 versus 10 years, the Obama plan spends $2.8 trillion more.

It seems to me, last year, the President could only spend the money Congress sent him.

The bulk of that payment, the Make Work Pay tax credit goes in excess of your payroll and your income tax liability, so it is a net check from the government.

The tax increases in this budget, I know for a fact, will punish companies who produce energy jobs in the United States.

The notion that we are going to have a drawdown that creates some mythical $1.6 trillion savings is not honest.

The foundation of this budget is the economic forecast for the next 2 years, especially the next 2 years.

It is honest that they are putting the AMT in the baseline because they are saying it is really the policy intention that we keep doing the patch.

This budget declares an all-out war on American energy companies.

Honestly, where does the rest of this savings come from? Or the tax increase come from?

But beyond repealing deferral, where are you thinking?