Marshall Sanford

I thank the gentleman from Washington for the way that he has worked with other colleagues in terms of trying to move this bill and this process forward. It would take Solomon in all of his wisdom to get it completely right, and in that…

I thank my colleague from Illinois for his hard work, and I thank Mr. Olson for his hard work. They have worked, I think, tirelessly and in an awfully well-intended way to craft a balance between the different competing points of view on…

I, too, rise in support of H.R. 1551, and I want to thank Mr. Rice for his hard work on this bill and the way he shepherded it through the legislative process. I think it is awfully important for a number of different reasons. I think it…

But when the president says to somebody in the audience, I wish I could hit you in the face if not why don't you do it and I'll pay your legal fees, we ought to call it for what it is, that's a problem.

I would argue that the president at least is partly, again, not in the totally, but partly to blame for demons that have been unleashed...

I do because, again, to have an open and free society there has to be a degree of civility in the way that we relate to one another to have real debates.

The notion of free trade, if you look at the port in Charleston, Charleston and South Carolina have been transformed as a result of open commerce and open investment and free trade.

I do not believe that 3 percent growth is realistic at this particular 10-year juncture.

It perpetuates a myth that we can go out there and balance the budget without touching entitlements.

I think it is just disastrously consequential to build a budget on 3 percent budget.

If you are wrong on these numbers, it means all of a sudden we have created a $2-plus trillion hole for our kids and grandkids here going forward.

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I tell my boys all the time that life is a series of course corrections, and what you don't get right in one day, you may get right the next.

I want to make clear that I agree with what every Republican speaker has said thus far on the need to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. I want to say how much I admire the Speaker and the leadership team, President Trump and his…

I thank the chairman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise with the greatest respect for my colleague from the District of Columbia and her passion on this subject and the bill that she has introduced. I rise with equal respect for my…

Ultimately airlines don't pay it. I mean, at the end of the day, it is the consumer that pays all this stuff.

Well, and that was a case where we were actually fighting for our survival as a republic.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for the way that, on a nightly basis, he comes down to the well and helps inform people. Jefferson, in the writings of our Founding Fathers, talked about how important it was to have an informed electorate…

I rise this evening to talk about a bill that Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and I have that we will be offering tomorrow. I think it is an important bill from the standpoint of advancing and perpetuating this American notion called…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill. I thank the chairman for his work and for the committee's work on this bill in the way that, in essence, it creates a lighthouse on how we might fund infrastructure…

I will ultimately vote today for the National Defense Authorization Act because it's a necessity, and I think it's important we authorize this spending so that procurement, research, and a host of other long-term projects stay on track…

I want to first commend the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall) for what he has done on this bill. It would take the wisdom of Solomon to get all the competing interests and all the competing views perfectly happy on this bill. What I…

We have got to go about looking at the national needs of this country as opposed to just the regional needs or the local needs. We got off on the notion of earmarks, and at times our answer is just to cede to the executive branch that…

I thank the chairman. I just want to come to applaud both the chairman and the ranking member for their work on this important measure. I think this bill is incredibly important because, in the simplest of forms, conflicting signals never…

I believe we are walking our way into a debt crisis. We are sleepwalking our way in that direction.