Tom Rice

My point is statistically, I do not know how in the world you are ever going to know whether these things--if we are talking about 19, maybe possibly 19 based on an uncompleted study of 27 graduate students, how in the world are you going…

The whole thing is American competitiveness.

I think we need to have a conversation about what the Federal role is.

can we talk? I am pleased to hear that President Obama, 10 days into a government shutdown, is finally willing to talk with a contingent of House Republicans at the White House this afternoon. After all, there is plenty to discuss…

can we talk? The government is partially shut down. The Nation's debt ceiling is looming. President Obama and Harry Reid have drawn a hard line. They have proclaimed over and over again, no negotiation. They insist the debt limit must be…

We are all concerned about the 800,000 Federal employees who have been furloughed for 3 days in the government shutdown. We can argue back and forth about who caused the shutdown, but the fact is that 800,000 people have been furloughed…

I just wanted to read a couple of the letters that have come into my office about the new health care law. I'm a senior citizen working part time. I can no longer see my doctor of 14 years. I know of other people getting their hours cut…

The last speaker for the minority was complaining of these small continuing resolutions because they pick and choose which groups will get funded. That is our exact problem with putting this Affordable Care Act into place--the President's…

I totally agree, you know, and I think one of the problems we suffer from here in this job as legislators is we think that we need to issue all these laws to protect people from things that just aren't real problems.

My friends across the aisle like to say ``therefore, the working class,'' but their actions speak more loudly than their words. The working man just got a $100 a month pay cut with the expiration of the payroll tax cut. The President's war…

My friends across the aisle like to say they're for the middle class, but I can't hear what they say because their actions speak far more loudly. The working man just got a $100-per-month pay cut with the expiration of the payroll tax cut…

I am getting hundreds of calls in my office, and they are not about sequester; they are about Obamacare.

The way I view this, really they are all taxes disguised because they are all the result of government action.

taxes take away from that, correct?

It seems like we are going to wring people dry.

I think one of the biggest problems that businesses face is uncertainty.

I do not think there is anything more important than job creation and economic development and you are right at the heart of it.

I do not think anybody really knows the effect of that. People say they do but I do not think anybody really knows the effect.

I think our businesses can compete with anybody, but the government has got a noose of red tape around their neck.

We have been operating under a continuing resolution for years. We have not had a budget for years.

I would like to thank you again for inviting me to testify on behalf of CFED.

I want to figure out what we have got to do to change it to make us competitive again.

I think we need to have the number of rules going down every year.

We desperately need jobs. We desperately need industry.

It appears to me that with our excess of rules that we have choked off a valuable American industry in shipping.