Jim Renacci

If we are able to reduce the business income tax rate to a much lower consumption tax, would that be a pro-growth policy?

The Federal Government is on a fiscal path that is unsustainable.

We got to cut rates. We got to reduce our unsustainable path, and we got to look at what we are spending.

Right now we are quite simply on an unsustainable path, and this proposed budget is recognition of that reality.

Would you agree that today, our corporate tax rate of 35 percent is the highest in the world?

I applaud the President, your office, for putting together a budget that balances, over the next 10 years.

I want to applaud you and the President for proposing a long overdue balanced budget, and one that begins reducing our national debt.

I think we should all be focused in on 3 percent, and that is why I am a big believer on tax reform and growth.

if we continue to raise our taxes, business will just leave, companies will just leave, and we will have less and less revenue.

We need to lower taxes. We need a territorial system. We need to make sure the U.S. is more competitive.

Our spending is out of control; our debt is out of control, and we have 70 percent of our spending, which is on autopilot.

If you were reporting to Congress and the American people your greatest fiscal concern for our Nation, would you report that our spending is unsustainable?

If you cut 25 percent, you would basically have to gut our military and gut every bit of discretionary spending, because the 70 percent is on autopilot.

Today I want to congratulate my colleague, my friend, and fellow Buckeye, Congressman Steve Stivers, on his promotion to brigadier general. I am thankful to be joined by my colleagues in the House and our Senators, Senator Brown and…

I thank Chairman Sam Johnson of Texas for his work on this important resolution and his many years of service to our country. Mr. Speaker, in the final weeks of President Obama's final term, the Social Security Administration finalized a…

When we pass a budget, we should follow a budget.

If we do nothing, I think the Federal deficit is projected to grow, if we just stay on the same track, $9.6 trillion in the next 10 years.

In the waning days of his Presidency, the Obama administration finalized the stream buffer rule, a final parting shot at the coal industry on his way out the door. Not once did the Office of Surface Mining visit and assess the economic…

I think that is the starting point that I hope at some point this committee can get to, having a good solid budget that then we live with.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 621. (By unanimous consent, Mr. McCarthy was allowed to speak out of order.) Legislative Program Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to inform my colleagues that, upon…

I was unavoidably detained on rollcalls 590 and 591. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 590 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 591. ____________________

I thank Chairman Johnson for his leadership on the Subcommittee on Social Security and for his leadership on this legislation. Identity theft is an issue that has become all too prevalent in recent years. In fact, the Federal Trade…

It is disingenuous today to ignore the fact that there are problems.

So you would agree that, because of the Affordable Care Act and because premiums are going up, the only way to reduce the premiums is to raise the deductible, which in the end, who pays? The American people.

I do believe one of Congress' most important roles is oversight and that it is important we have this hearing.