Bill Johnson

GAO's long-term budget projections indicate that, absent some policy changes, the Federal Government's debt held by the public as a share of GDP is expected to rise steadily.

Does this debt trajectory that GAO projects emphasize the need for putting in place policies as soon as possible that would arrest this trend and lower debt levels over time?

Security is something that has to be thought about upfront, in the design of a system, not an afterthought.

The FCC's privacy rules are an overreaching regulatory mess that create confusion and inconsistency for consumers, harm competition, and upend internet privacy as we know it.

It is going to be very important that we change siting rules at the federal and local levels for wireless carriers.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thanks for this hearing, a really important hearing.

Is it true the longer Congress waits to reform Social Security, the harder it is to implement the reforms without affecting current retirees?

If Social Security continues to pay out more in benefits than it collects in taxes, what, in your opinion, will that mean for current beneficiaries if we do not take any action here?

All right, son, what are you going to do to make sure Washington protects my Social Security benefits because if they do not, I am coming to live with you.

Has Obamacare successfully bent down the cost curve in healthcare spending? No.

So, basically, you have got bureaucrats running our healthcare system instead of physicians and patients.

Obamacare has failed and it has caused a series of very serious problems for the American people.

Just the execution and enforcement, but the idea and the standards are good.

I would just like to point out that under this administration the economy will have averaged 1.55 percent growth through two terms.

The government's own studies indicated that Head Start, by the time kids reach the fourth grade show no impact.

I just hope that we can return once again to kind of a common sense approach to an all-of-the-above energy policy where we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater and we are not killing jobs and that we are looking more for…

I certainly hope that as you transition--assuming that you transition out someone else transitions in--that you will pass that advocacy on to your successor in the sense that we--one of these days, because we are problem solvers here in…

Publicly held debt is projected to rise from an already elevated 76 percent this year to more than 85 percent by 2026.

I can remember as far back as 2010 or 2011 when then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen said that the greatest threat to our national security is our national debt.

I find it absurd that we would be challenged on an air of hostility when we are doing what the American people require us and request us to do, which is to hold the EPA accountable.

I think it's absurd. I think it's irresponsible. Quite honestly, Ms. McCabe, I think it's un-American.

It's a ripoff of the American people, and the Federal courts have shown and have demonstrated through their rulings that you guys are consistently overreaching.

The money that is coming out in Federal regulations, particularly from the EPA, is like a--is like a dadgum permission slip to do business in America.

The taxpayers would expect that we get that higher degree of certainty and cost-benefit analysis, because it is affecting the industry.

But your rulemaking, but the backfit rule requires that you do determine cost-benefit analysis.