Steve Chabot

Agriculture does not need the added burden.

Do the general permits improve the environment? Not at all.

There is a solution to this nonsense, enact House H.R. 872.

And even EPA and the majority of Congress have voiced their opposition to the permits.

States do not need the added expense.

We have a trade deficit with China right now. Is that correct? In other words, we are importing a whole lot more from them.

We don't know what the so-called Super Committee is going to do, what they are going to recommend.

I don't know if you are aware or not or have read the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive Report on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage, but China is one of the most aggressive collectors of U.S. economic…

We are borrowing money from China to give back to China to improve industrial energy efficiency, which will then drive down production costs to Chinese firms.

It just seems to me you are going to have a hard sell explaining to the American people why we ought to be using U.S. tax dollars to fund something like this.

The money has got to come from somewhere unless we are going to add to the deficit.

Where does the administration propose cutting? What program is less important than us giving this what many of us would call foreign aid to China?

We are spending far more money than we take in, which means that any additional expenditures that are made--and this is an additional expenditure that is being proposed here, correct?

I can guarantee you for the hardworking, taxpaying folks back in my district, that is a lot of money, more money than most see in an entire lifetime of work.

If they can't, we know that sequestration of funds was built into the bill, which means automatic cuts, $600 billion in cuts from defense.

There is some speculation that, God forbid, they are going to suggest that we raise taxes and, therefore, burden the American people even more.

We have got almost a $15 trillion national debt hanging over our heads, $1.3 trillion this year alone.

We are broke. The United States is broke. We spend more money than we take in.

I want to thank my friend the chairman from Illinois for arranging this hearing.

Saying that Iraq is secure, stable, and self-reliant... does not make it so.

Fulfilling a campaign promise at the expense of American national security interests is, at best, strategic neglect.

I am very concerned by the President's recent announcement of a complete withdrawal by the end of the year.

U.S. policy toward North Korea, particularly with respect to their nuclear program has been flawed and wanting.

Congressman Chabot's bill 3219 will help by raising single and family fund limits.

I just want to take a moment to commend the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Smith, for his work on not only this legislation but for all the work he has done over the years in the area of human trafficking.