Brendan Boyle

I happen to wish the committee had more funds to execute its responsibilities.

I am proud to say that on this budget we agree.

I want to reiterate what an honor and privilege it is to serve as Ranking Member of the Budget Committee.

Louis DeJoy, you are no Benjamin Franklin. There is a reason why I and others of my colleagues have called for his termination.

The Russian invasion and attack on Ukraine is paramount, but a close second to that is every one of my colleagues is speaking about the inflation going on in their country.

I know it is tempting to get into the usual partisan food fight and score points.

I would bring to your attention--though I am certain that you are aware of it--that when--although this is the case actually with both--it is not just the person who is suffering either from an addiction or from a mental health issue, but…

It is not overstating the situation to call it a crisis.

But there has to be a better of balancing civil liberties with the desire of a family to get love and care to one that desperately needs it.

There are just far too few in our society and we have a lot of people in our country who are hurting because of that.

I certainly know that the firefighters and teachers who live in my neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, they would love to pay an 8 percent tax rate.

The average effective rate among those 400 that you mentioned is currently 8 percent?

I think the idea that I have come up with, it is not inherently liberal or conservative or Democratic or Republican, it would give Treasury secretaries of both parties this authority.

The idea that it is only the debt ceiling drama that is needed for us to talk about deficit and debt is not accurate.

I will just say briefly, I am happy to work with you or anyone else on this issue in good faith.

Kevin McCarthy is a coward. He will do whatever it takes to be speaker. It’s almost pathetic.

We cannot have any tolerance for those who are in elected office or otherwise who encourage and incite political violence.

We have essentially been hindered by sequestration for the last decade under the Budget Control Act.

The President's American Jobs Plan is our next opportunity to continue our recovery.

This budget restores our investments in true American values and invests in the American people.

Now is the time to go big and be bold to get America back on track.

It is, as President Biden often says, a statement of our values.

I am enormously excited by this budget proposal.

I think it is crucial that Congress again reassert its role in holding the power of the purse.

Unfortunately, in so many ways and not just in the power of the purse, we have seen, in my view, a migration of power from the legislative branch to the executive branch really over the last 20, 25 years.