For purposes of a unanimous consent request, I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur). (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

For purposes of a unanimous consent request, I yield to Mr. Ackerman of New York. (Mr. ACKERMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

For purposes of another unanimous consent request, I yield to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Waters). (Ms. WATERS asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

To supplement my remarks about statutory PAYGO, I would like to include in the Record the attached section of the bill. Madam Speaker, at the outset of the 1990s, the Congress passed the Budget Enforcement Act for a simple purpose: to…

shouldn't we stop creating new programs, now agencies, new commissions and new discretionary spending?

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

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 am transmitting a status report on the current levels of on-budget spending and revenues for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and for the five-year period of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. This report is necessary to facilitate the…

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.

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.

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.

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