Scott Perry

I suspect your staff has informed you of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency's findings and our hearings that we have had where literally every single thing we have examined has shown gross mismanagement.

The Department has always been cooperative. So I am concerned about this, and Members of the committee are, as well.

Now, given the Cuban government's past activities related to human rights violations, counterintelligence activities, and subversive actions towards America, as well as the fact that they have lifted the visa requirement and we are seeing…

Today I focus my remarks on one decision of particular concern with many of our fellow Members of the House...

I thank the majority whip for his passion and his remarks. While he talks about the battlefield, we are going to hear from somebody that has been to the battlefield. The other thing about these terrorists that are spending their time in…

I think sometimes it seems like the President would like Americans to be more concerned with the rights of terrorists than their own rights. I wonder about and think about all those MPs, all those members of the services that go down and…

I thank my good friend from Texas and agree with him that 30 percent is way too high. One is too many, but 30 percent is way--way too high. I yield to my good friend from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

I sent a letter to the administration asking why we haven't pursued a safe zone in the border region of Syria and Turkey.

We want to do our part to be good neighbors and good stewards in the world.

I don't think anybody is being held accountable and I would just beseech you that the Federal Government's $19 trillion in debt.

To my knowledge, the American taxpayer spends about $277 million per year between the Fiscal Year 2009 and 2015 to support these programs.

Leadership requires making hard decisions, hard choices, and making people accountable.

I will tell you this, sir, I do appreciate your service.

You know that our National debt is $19 trillion right now, right? You know this?

DHS violates the trust of the taxpayers when it doesn't know how hundreds of millions of tax dollars are spent and have virtually nothing to show for it.

But the bigger point of this slide, if you will, is that even with sequestration, you can see that, first of all, it is not different from the normal program spending. It has absolutely nothing to do with the huge portion of spending which…

I don't think you can completely explain the green part of sequestration. As you can see, it moves above the red line on occasion about 2017.

Many of your constituents hear, from time to time, whether it is the President, people on the other side--and, frankly, people on our side--say that we are reducing the deficits. They hear this. If they don't come to your townhall meeting…

The only thing you have left to pay is from incoming revenues from taxes. So your benefits are decreased by that whatever that amount is at that time. So it probably fluctuates probably somewhere between 25 and 30 percent.

So you took $114 billion out of OASI, which is the big Social Security? We took it out of that and put it into disability insurance because disability was going to be bankrupt while we stand here today?

Would the gentleman from Arizona confirm for the audience or explain what OASI and DI mean?

More importantly, for this illustration, it is as important that we were telling the public--because the CBO projection told us that it was going to be 4.5, 4.4, but we were basing all our estimates on those numbers. We are basing our…

They want to cut something. Why do you spend money on--I don't know. They call them Obama funds. Or why do you spend money on foreign aid? If we just cut that, we don't have to pay for people to hate us. They will hate us for free. It all…

We have a tendency in Congress--quite honestly, we have a tendency as Americans--with our domestic and foreign policy, to just pretend that these things aren't happening.

Right, and the population growth for those people who will be receiving benefits.