Tom Rice

I think we need to have innovation in education like manufacturing high schools or medical high schools or different sort of categories to create some excitement.

Well, see, you just heard that attitude of competitiveness right there. Did you hear that?

I will tell you, we do not seem to have the attitude to be as competitive to the rest of the world...

I want good, high-paying jobs.

The Affordable Care Act is a pretty big factor to companies, particularly those that employ over 50 people.

It has been years and years, has it not?

We need to make sure that our ports can accept these things.

This hearing is called to order.

I hope that we would help educate Americans that we should be a nation that not only consumes and purchases goods, but also manufactures them and hope that we would cultivate an appreciation for manufacturing and for 'Made in USA.'

The taxpayers are paying that return as an additional cost on the project, in exchange for shifting risk.

I understand the financing advantage of a P3, and that, you know, it is not public financing.

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is more than just a broken campaign promise.

The Stop This Overreaching Presidency Resolution directs the House to institute legal action to require the President to faithfully execute the law

If we can't get these ports dredged, then, obviously, we are putting our manufacturers in the United States at a huge disadvantage to the rest of the world.

I think that is what our country is concerned about, and making this country competitive.

I believe we must find some common ground on which to stand because the American people deserve better than the weak recovery.

These counties have just as good or better people than any other place in the world.

The federal government, one size fits all has been proven over and over and over again not to work.

You have got anti-jobs provisions in the Affordable Care Act, the 30-hour per week limit...

Dodd-Frank and the Affordable Care Act were two of the biggest regulatory expansions in the history of the United States.

When the corporate tax rate in the United States is 35 percent... what are they going to do?

This project was moved much closer to reality in October as Congressman Rice assisted mightily with the passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act

The completion of the South Carolina portion of I-73 will allow the region to continue to grow unmitigated by travel and distribution constraints

I cannot thank you enough for your leadership and for reaching out and caring for areas like these rural counties.

And I want to thank all of the citizens that are interested and involved and care deeply about our rural Pee Dee counties.