John Spratt: “I thank Mr. Royce and Mr. Lantos for that clarification and commend you for your excellent work on this important…”

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.

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?

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.