Tom Reed

It is imperative to encourage and incentivize young people to stay in school and build a future full of opportunity, self-sufficiency, and economic success.

By requiring children to remain in school as they receive SSI, these individuals will increase their likelihood of graduation, obtaining employment, and breaking that cycle of poverty that we all agree must be broken.

We can and must do better for those in this program.

I am fairly confident that the American people are astute enough...if there are concerns in the agreement that need to be raised, they will be raised.

All I want to do is just go out and work my land.

You know what? When my father dies, I am going to have to carve up my farm to pay the tax bill.

And even the people that are the robber barons, like the Andrew Carnegies, just like Warren Buffett, $37.4 billion of his money going to better our fellow American citizens.

How is it fair that Washington, D.C. takes your property and makes you pay a tax on it at your death?

I think we really need to reach out to the people on the front line and say, 'Okay, how would you judge yourself to say if you are effective or not in impacting lives in a positive way,' and then hold people accountable to their own…

If we are going to be sincere about fixing this problem, I think we need to change the rhetoric of this Subcommittee.

I think that is wrong, because you are taking from Social Security retirees the money that they put into the Social Security Trust Fund.

We need to do better than that, and I think you are committed to it.

There is a new generation of leaders down here in Washington, D.C. that say we cannot do old school.

I greatly appreciate your comment about respecting the sovereignty of the tribal nations, and I think that is something that is critical to the future relationship with the nation.

I care about those people. Those are millions of people that are going to wake up, and the best we are doing right now in Washington, D.C. is to say we are not even putting it in our budget, we are not even going to address it as a crisis…

My hope is that every member of this Committee will cosponsor the bill and that Congress will take action to restore health plan choice options for small employers.

This bill uses some public funds to fuel the creation of these regional institutes, mandating that any partnership be wholly self-sufficient within seven years.

We have to build it here, sell it there.

I am very concerned about making sure that we are enforcing our trade provisions to the fullest extent possible.

But as we have to build these companies here in the United States, making sure that we can get the right person quickly and be able to pivot--one of the biggest--the biggest things that we have learned in the last five to six years over…

I have seen firsthand the benefits of municipal financing and municipal investments through local and State capital bonds.

I am embarrassed to hear some of the comments that have been made today about what I believe to be the biggest threat to the future security of our country, the security of our country, when it comes to our kids and our grandkids, and that…

The American people have spoken loudly. They want us to get our fiscal house in order.

The American people have spoken loudly. They want us to get our fiscal house in order.

it is not a question of if we are going to do comprehensive tax reform; it is a question of when.