John Spratt: “Our law enforcement is tasked with securing our homeland and protecting our people.”

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.

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

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

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.