Tom Rice

I think the best welfare to work program is a good, healthy economy, like you have in Florida, like you have in Texas.

I thank the distinguished gentleman for yielding. The Gullah/Geechee culture is infused throughout the low country of South Carolina. In fact, it is a big part of what makes the low country of South Carolina so unique. From Daufuskie on…

It is perplexing and frustrating to me that the President and Republicans and Democrats and House and Senate Members all talk about this as a huge problem for American competitiveness every day, every day, and yet we can't seem to push…

Recent polls say 65 percent of American families don't believe that their children will have the same opportunities that they have had.

I haven't seen one from the President.

How do we solve the problem? We are not--we haven't solved the problem.

It is not just the fault of Congress, it is also the fault of the Administration.

I have been in Congress for three years. I have seen him engage with Congress twice.

I think the President spends a tremendous amount of time on the bully pulpit, throwing stones and working around and even subverting Congress.

What specific proposals has the Administration made to fix Social Security?

Why are they losing money? Is it because our government is inept to run the healthcare system, or is it because we just did really bad projections?

I'm running out of time, but let me ask you this: Eight million people in 2014 paid a penalty for not signing up for Obamacare. How many were enrolled?

I don't know if you heard, but the United States has $18 trillion in debt and both the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office, they don't agree on many things, but they agree we're on an unsustainable path.

Yesterday two terrorists murdered 14 people in a gun-free zone in San Bernardino, California, and my heart certainly goes out to the residents of San Bernardino, all of California, and all of this country. The President's response today…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I certainly appreciate and respect the chairman's hard work in gathering up this bill. While I respectfully disagree with him that the bill adequately addresses tourism, I think a national committee…

I cannot tell you how in favor of debarments and fines and penalties, I am, because when you hit people where it hurts the most, that is an actual deterrent.

Was anybody disciplined?

Was anybody fired over this 3-million-gallon spill of toxic chemicals into this river?

So if there is a mine on private property that is going to produce some toxic material, there is no Federal permitting requirement for that?

If there are viable parties still existing that mine this ore, don't they bear the ultimate financial responsibility for this?

Have they been paying for the maintenance of the mine?

You don't know if--you said that there are some surviving companies from this Gold King Mine.

Even though it is the law?

This gold mine was closed, right?

I want to avoid this problem happening again.