Marshall Sanford

I will take that as a yes, that Milton Friedman was right, that ultimately an important measure toward making government more efficient is, in fact, making it smaller.

Sailing straight into sovereign debt crisis is not pro-go strategy.

It's nefarious, it's awkward, it's unpleasant, it's unseemly, it's not something people feel that comfortable talking about, but frank, it's something we ought to talk about because it is a big deal.

Is it optimistic? Are we lulling ourselves to sleep based on forecasts that are relatively benign in what may prove not to be the case?

If you look at your projections in 2012 on the ACA, it was not margin of error. It was just plain error.

I think that this budget perpetuates this myth that we can balance the budget without impacting entitlements.

I admire you. I appreciate your competence, the way you handle yourself. I think you make the state of South Carolina proud.

I think that is a really dangerous myth to perpetuate.

I guess my question to each one of you all would be, are we walking our way toward the most predictable financial crisis in the history of man, and are you abetting in that process?

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I wanted to join him just for a few moments to simply applaud the way in which he is raising this issue tonight. I think it is incredibly important because it was Jefferson who actually said ``that…

President Trump's campaign energized the white supremacist movement--"unearthed some demons," to borrow Representative Mark Sanford's words.

Well, look, if the President can say whatever, why can't I say whatever? He's given them license.

I was detained this afternoon at Georgetown University Hospital as my youngest son Blake broke his nose last evening and I was attending to him. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 616, ``yea'' on rollcall No…

Wouldn't it make sense to again enact that repeal for a longer time period so that more aid at a lower cost could go into Puerto Rico?

I want to make sure both of you think leaving it alone is best for the people of Puerto Rico.

Given the fact that this crisis has lasted much longer than people would have presupposed, given that there is a higher cost to people in Puerto Rico in bringing aid and armament--if you want to think about it in defense terms--then why…

It seems to me in the back and forth that the--a fairly central question that's emerged has been: Has the cut in funding in IRS resulted in its inability to do things?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I would make two quick points on the importance of tax reform. One, I would refer to an editorial that appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. What it talked about was the nexus between…

I rise, as well, in opposition to the substitute amendment, and I do so because I am struck by the ways in which you can, at times, agree on the diagnosis but disagree on the cure. I think we would all agree, Republicans and Democrats…

Finally, I would simply make this point: Not only can you only squeeze but so much blood from a turnip--and there are certainly limits that have shown themselves, which is around 18 or 20 percent of GDP, regardless of tax rate, up, down…

I would say to my colleague from Kentucky, I think the rhetorical device that he is using at the end of each speaker is very effective and it is persuasive. But I would challenge him with this: I think one of the things that we have got to…

I want to make clear I am offering this amendment on behalf of the gentleman from New Jersey, Frank LoBiondo, who I know has worked with my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia, Don Beyer, on this bipartisan measure. I think it is one…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I very much respect the viewpoint of the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan), and I want to be clear: I believe in fossil fuel. I think that the real conundrum in this debate is who is…

As the designee of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo), I have an amendment at the desk. =========================== NOTE =========================== September 7, 2017, on page H7158, the following appeared: Mr. SANFORD. Mr…

I will split my time, in the spirit of bipartisanship, with my colleague from Virginia, and I would simply say this: I want to go back to the most basic of all conservative themes, which is we believe that the individual is paramount in…