John Spratt: “The gentlewoman is not only right. She is forcefully correct. She is absolutely right, no question about it.”

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.

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…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and rise in emphatic support of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. This bill, as befits its title, makes record investments in our Nation's military, authorizing $725…