John Spratt

I respectfully request the committee not only provide for full funding of the BRAC recommendations but also provide legislative language to prioritize any BRAC construction related to Defense Health Programs.

We must do what is necessary to jump start our economy now, but long-term we must work to bring our budget into balance.

Adding funding for mass transit and other transportation projects won't only help jump start our economy, but it also will help improve the commutes of millions of Americans every day.

Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary efforts. I look forward to working with the Administration, Chairman Spratt, Ranking Member Ryan, and the rest of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who want to return the government to…

Our law enforcement is tasked with securing our homeland and protecting our people.

Specifically, I come here today to ask all of you to include in the budget significant funding increases in our nation's transportation infrastructure.

This Congress has a once in a generation opportunity to really rethink our transportation network.

I hope this committee, under the leadership of Chairman Spratt and Ranking Member Ryan, will provide a budget blueprint that better suits the needs of my district.

Going back to the topic before Ms. Tsongas spoke, here are just some highlights of the economy we also inherited, so that we have got, in effect, a dual negative double whammy--a budget deficit that is soaring out of sight and an economy…

You said the key point when you said it didn't have to happen. In the year 2001 when President Bush first took office, we proposed at that time, since we had a surplus for the first time in 30 years, to take the surplus in Social Security…

not only did the deficit come down in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 as a result of the Clinton administration's policies, but employment went up also. Every year the bottom line of the budget got better and better and better for 8 straight…

I want to thank you once again for your excellent testimony. I think it speaks volumes about defense, but also about the value of analysis that we have valuable in CBO and CRS.

But dealing with the economic crisis does not excuse or even diminish Congress' responsibility to the primary role of the Federal Government, and that is our national defense.

I am very concerned that this not drift into the supplemental budget situation.

During a time when we are plagued with problems, we can at least be thankful that the Obama Administration will have Peter Orszag, a steady hand, at the helm.

Our country faces massive problems: a recession that is deepening, unemployment that is soaring, business failures and foreclosures occurring at a rate not seen since the 1930's.

every year the Budget Committee has one all- important task, and that's to outline a budget for Congress to follow. Today, we do just that as we pass the conference agreement on the budget for fiscal 2009. The Senate passed the conference…

I think this is very necessary. This is not a fine debate about semantics or definitions, it's an issue about the integrity of the intelligence process in the United States of America. It's well-known now that because of a focus that was…

What we have tried to do is get this effort down to its essence. The two versions, iterations that we had in the committee were, I thought, prolific with different ideas and requirements. We have an existing system. It works well. We have…

I offer an amendment that would strike the provisions of section 1224 in the bill. It would replace those provisions with language requiring the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress regular updates of the National…

Mr. Speaker, on March 13, we passed the budget resolution. It's a good resolution. It moves the budget to balance by the Year 2012 and, along the way, it accumulates less debt than the Bush budget. It limits spending to a reasonable level…

Well, here we have the Republicans engaging in fuzzy math again. Unlike the eight budgets submitted by George Bush, which are taking this country toward bankruptcy, they're so incredibly out of balance, unlike the 12 budgets given to us by…

let me say again, but say more emphatically, what I said at the outset, and that is that ANWR is never mentioned, never mentioned in the budget resolution, never mentioned in the report that accompanies the resolution. So it's wholly out…

Mr. Chairman, I think it bears remembering that 8 short years ago the budget of this government was $236 billion in surplus. Since 2001, we have experienced, on the watch of this administration, the largest deficits, nominal deficits, in…

Instead of making the government bigger, we need to right-size government and reform government. Rather, this Democrat budget represents the efficiency and effectiveness of FEMA, the customer service of the IRS, and the real thoughtful…