So what that means is, in the 2030s, we do not think we can measure the economy going forward because the debt burdens.

The health care law fails to address the cost problem, and instead adds new liabilities to an already bankrupt future.

We do not want to have the rapid changes that Europe did.

This creates a rigged game where success is too often determined not by the quality of service or products a business provides but by their relationships to those in power in Washington.

Regrettably, the President's policies take us in the wrong direction.

While we're dealing with tough economic times, Americans still live in the most prosperous and dynamic country in the world.

We have to ask ourselves whether the status quo--an expensive and unaffordable status quo--is the best way to address the problems that the Congress has set for itself to solve.

I would argue for looking at immigration as an economic solution to our problems; that we identify aspirational people.

It is once again the fiction that ah, we didn't need the government and this could have been a privately run bankruptcy.

Smart and modest changes today mean huge dividends down the line.

The purpose of today's hearing is to examine the need to restore responsibility and accountability to how Washington spends its taxpayers' hard earned dollars.