John Spratt: “Madam speaker, I thank the gentleman for his comments, and I now yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott).”

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

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

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…

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