John Spratt

Today, I rise to support a bipartisan bill that will help rebuild our manufacturing sector and continue our economic recovery. I am proud to be a cosponsor of the ``Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act.'' The legislation was introduced in…

This bill will authorize the Rural Utilities Service to make loans to rural electric co-ops so that the co-ops, in turn, can make loans to families and small businesses for energy conservation and efficiency measures that meet Federal…

I join other members of the South Carolina delegation in cheering the University of South Carolina baseball team and Coach Ray Tanner for winning the 2010 College World Series. I extend special congratulations to Coach Tanner for being…

I was a member of Congress and served on the House Armed Services Committee, when the ``Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy was adopted. It was a clever solution, but the policy and its consequences deserve an updated review. The Secretary of…

This bill fully funds national security activities in the Departments of Defense and Energy, including top-line funding increases for DOD as well as fully funding Iraq and Afghanistan operations. This is the fourth consecutive year that…

Mr. Speaker, the reconciliation bill before us does more than advance the cause of health care. It makes a landmark investment in education, one that will make college more affordable for millions of students, and all without adding a dime…

Mr. Speaker, beyond the walls of this Capitol, there are millions of Americans who can't afford health insurance and they live in fear of getting sick. Millions more are discriminated against by insurance companies because they have…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this historic legislation, arguably the most important vote we here today will ever take in this Chamber. Today fulfills a promise made 100 years ago by Theodore Roosevelt when he first called for…

To supplement my remarks about statutory PAYGO, I would like to include in the Record the attached section of the bill. Madam Speaker, at the outset of the 1990s, the Congress passed the Budget Enforcement Act for a simple purpose: to…

shouldn't we stop creating new programs, now agencies, new commissions and new discretionary spending?

The moral of the story is, if the leaders of both parties don't want a commission to succeed, if the leaders of both parties aren't willing to put both parts of the budget, taxes and spending, on the table, the chances that it is going to…

If we have entitlements that we already can't pay for, shouldn't we not be adding new entitlements?

Under Democratic leadership, the 111th Congress moved swiftly to enact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which has jump started economic activity.

I want to thank Congresswoman Gwen Moore for suggesting this hearing and for her role in bringing it about and putting it together.

I want to welcome everyone to our hearing this morning on The Social Safety Net: Impact of the Recession and of the Recovery Act.

Failed Republican economic policies had brought the financial system dangerously close to a complete meltdown and had driven the economy into its deepest recession since the 1930s.

The positive impact of the Recovery Act is already being made apparent, and more economic activity will be generated as stimulus dollars continue to spend out.

When President Obama was sworn into office at the beginning of this year, the economy was in deep contraction and jobs were being lost at a rate of 741,000 per month.

Let me get something clear. There are a hundred and three operating nuclear reactors, commercial reactors in operation generating spent fuel waste.

I think it is a bit irresponsible to at least articulate to the American people, to the Congress, why you think we need a new policy direction.

All of these have contracts for ultimate waste disposal with the federal government?

We are the Budget Committee, not the Energy Committee, and it is not our job to draft energy bills.

There must be universality of access to health care.

We must respect the right of individuals to choose health insurance and providers.