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 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 hope this Congress will come together and do it in a way that makes sense.

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

I want to make it clear: I am not proposing that we change all the current policies, but I think this does give us a very clear indication of the order of magnitude.

40 percent of providers will become unprofitable by 2050 and therefore go out of business.

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

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

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