the Congressional Budget Office's report underscores the need to address the looming deficit in a balanced, reasoned way.

So that is the change from last year's baseline to this year's baseline? What is the delta?

In terms of the highest income or highest expenditure in last 50 years, 50 years ago I was probably making around $200 a month, take home, and today, 50 years later, I have the highest income that I could ever have imagined or ever dreamed…

the Recovery Act did serve its purpose.

I mean, no one here is happy with where we are at today, believe me, I represent Youngstown, Ohio; we have the poorest city in the country.

the president's health care law cut Medicare payments to providers by $500 billion over 10 years.

We should take immediate action in this House on the jobs plan the President submitted to the Congress last September.

Thank you all.

the combination of policies cannot be sustained over the next quarter century.

I am just going to quickly put up two charts and then I will conclude my opening statement.

We should finish the job with respect to extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, and making sure that unemployment insurance is there for people who have lost work through no fault of their own.