Jim Jordan

Do you think there should be a work requirement?

Do you think it is appropriate for this administration to waive the work requirement for able-bodied adults receiving some type of social services?

What we can prove is we are spending a lot more today than we were 4 years ago.

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

How can you say we have done any deficit reduction?

How is that going to help grow jobs and improve the employment situation that we all want to improve?

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

The fundamental disconnect with President Obama's energy policies.

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

Yeah, opportunity costing----

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

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

It seems to me we have got this quandary. I would agree with what both sides of the aisle said. Most people do want to work.

Fine, but there is a work requirement. That is now being waived in all places across the country.

CBO estimates that this piece of legislation will lead to 800,000 fewer Americans working in the economy by the end of this decade.

So you supported raising taxes on middle class, and in effect, business owners like Miss Carter who is an LLC or not a C Corp?

Yeah, we will reconvene at 3:40 and we can bring that issue up and a host of others.

I think both sides agree with that. There comes a point where the safety net incentives are not what we need to maximize employment and maximize economic growth.

This idea that we've been practicing austerity is just not the case.

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

We might be better off and actually help families, help our culture, help our country if we didn't have 70 different programs administered in the various agencies across the Federal Government working with the States if we focused that on…

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…

If that's not a disincentive to work, I don't know what is.

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.

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.