Richard L. Hanna

The bottom line is this is not working, and people are not incentivized to use it.

There is a difference between expense and investment. These are clearly investments in our future.

I could not agree more with Senator Casey. ... every possible matrix suggests that universal pre-K, or as near as we can get to it, is one of the best investments a society can make.

Those FSSI contracts displaced 500 plus small businesses in exchange for a handful of small businesses.

I think it is appropriate that we periodically review the efficiency of these programs and make improvements so that the reality of the programs remains true to the spirit of the Act.

We have all failed dramatically to address the impact of running this country into ever more debt.

I believe that this Congress has to change the law in order to allow you to do that

The Federal Government has long seen the value of having successful businesses mentor small and emerging businesses.

What is impossible is for any reasonable person to continue denying that Republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail Secretary Clinton's Presidential campaign.

We are probably a severe accident away from a public cry over why haven't we done something.

What you are really describing is a race to the bottom, an opportunity to bid virtually against yourself, taking a risk that may be inappropriate in the moment.

What is obvious from listening to you is that what we have here is a small war or maybe a large war of attrition.

One man's loophole is another man's following the law.

One could argue that to hire a company that completed a study and ask it to go back on its own study is the definition of a conflict of interest.

But knowing that the study was never completed, and yet it was implemented August a year ago, doesn't prove that they were interested in science.

The way the bill is written... is counterproductive, in terms of safety.

But it doesn't feel like the FAA is up to the challenge right now, that they are behind.

As a small business guy, I had a pretty simple principle I tried to live by. You know, if it does not work, stop doing it. If it is broken, fix it. If it is in the way, get it out of the way in to be able to get the economy moving.

If you cannot make us trust you in that regard, you are going to have an outcome that you do not like and that potentially we do not like.

Backing up and blaming the Supreme Court, or using them as a crutch, that also is not helpful.

The EPA is now our enemy, not our friend.

Through the title of this hearing, Vice Chair Klobuchar and her Democratic colleagues acknowledge that Washington does not have a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem that Americans face.

July 2nd marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, I was absent and missed rollcall votes Nos. 315 and 316. Had I been present, I would have voted: rollcall 315--``yea,'' rollcall 316--``nay.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Webster of Florida). Without…