John Spratt: “Ironically, there is about $20 billion there for roads, bridges, oil wells and other infrastructure in Iraq.”

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

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

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

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