The President and others claimed the stimulus would create 3 to 4 million new jobs.

We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.

We need to get government out of the way.

Nevertheless, it is the first time in 70 years the U.S. bond rating was downgraded.

One of the thing we thought this debt ceiling debate made sense was a proposal we put forward we thought was starting to break through with the American.

Yet, over two and a half years later, 1.7 million fewer Americans have jobs at a cost of $825 billion to taxpayers.

In early 2009, President Obama sold the stimulus as a solution to the recession and skyrocketing unemployment.

I hate being an employer because of all the stuff you make us do, and he pointed right at me, talking about government.

The one word I have heard more than anything else over the last 3 years relative to our economic situation and the lack of growth is uncertainty.

We are supposed to be the neutral arbiters and judge and decide cases without regard to who it is who is before us or what their views are.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let's just cut to the numbers and what this bill does. We've got a $14 trillion debt. This is going to raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion. It's going to achieve a savings of $18 billion in the first…

I think the American people are against raising taxes on the job creators out there.

As I have said many times before in this subcommittee, one reason explaining the stagnant jobs numbers is the administration's stubborn determination to issue multiple onerous regulations all at once.

You may not, but my guess is small business owners, my guess is manufacturers probably do.

I am confident as of this morning that there were not 218 Republicans in support of the plan.

If you are not spending those dollars to retrofit and retool your facility, you are probably using them some other way.

Let me be clear. You say there is going to be an increase in cost for energy.

So the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admits that the rule changes will result in higher electricity costs.

These regulations have been collectively referred to as EPA's train wreck.

We have 9.2 percent unemployment now.

What defies logic is a $14 trillion debt and the Democrats' unwillingness to say let's do what everyone else has to do. Let's put a balanced budget requirement in the Constitution so that politicians have to do what they have to do in…

I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

Oh, that's really worked well over the last 40 years. I yield 15 seconds to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton).

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the great State of Louisiana (Mr. Landry).

I think it's going to get 218, and we'll send it to the Senate. At some point we may be able to get two-thirds. That's our whole goal. This bill needs 218.