The government is bigger today than it was 4 years ago.

I think we need to start emphasizing more work, saving and education to get the positive.

President Obama likes to take credit for this. That credit is--is completely wrong.

the fundamental disconnect with President Obama's energy policies.

The law has been around for 16 years, signed by President Clinton, bipartisan support.

Yeah, that's common sense. We all understand that.

We know that these programs are being abused; we just can't agree on what extent they're being abused.

Today's hearing is about America's unemployed and understanding the failure, the failure of Federal efforts to get them back to work.

The administration justified the stimulus with a report stating that as a result of this legislation, the unemployment rate would never, never exceed 8 percent.

No one argued--I mean, Mr. Cartwright in his opening statement talked about the economy that this administration inherited, no one argues that it was bad and headed in the wrong direction. The point here today is what was undertaken has…

Four years ago this week, an 800 billion stimulus spending package was signed into law with the intent of creating jobs and jump-starting economic growth.