Tom Rice

With $20 trillion in debt, we have to make sure that those dollars are spent wisely.

We have got less money coming in than going out in the long run, and that money will run out eventually.

We have to offer solutions. I believe it is one of the factors that is holding our economy back.

We have got to get the American people aware that you have got to get to work. It is about jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs.

If you talk about reducing the outgo, cutting people's benefits, you make that population angry.

if they are spending their money on lazy rivers, then, in fact, they should be taxed.

I think one thing is people don't know about it.

I have three sons. I have a 31-year-old, a 29-year-old, and a 27-year-old, so I felt the pain, and I was glad when my youngest graduated.

So often you hear about technology putting workers out of work. You are using technology to put people back to work.

I am so pleased to hear about the successes in Florida and Utah in particular and glad that the Federal Government has allowed States the level of flexibility they have.

I am so excited to rise today to congratulate a small university of 10,000 students in Horry County, South Carolina: Coastal Carolina University. Coastal Carolina may be small in size, but it is huge in achievement. CCU has had a couple of…

President Obama promised the American people the most transparent Administration in modern history. But experience has proved exactly the opposite.

We both work for the same people. All we are asking for is what President Obama promised, and that is transparency.

Political disagreement? We don't even know what we are disagreeing about because you won't even tell us your position.

We are not achieving full long-range solvency, absolutely.

And for many people who are currently already retired or certainly approaching retirement, it will have a dramatic effect on their retirement income, correct?

The problem is this demographic wave that we face, correct?

And those reserves will be gone in what year?

You hold the public's trust, and you are eroding that trust.

I think the Fourth Amendment says that you can't seize people's money without probable cause.

I think that is absolutely justifiable. I think the American people's faith in the government has been eroded.

It is malicious. It is wrongdoing. It is criminal. Our government is acting as the criminal here.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 4, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,241,850)''. Page 50, line 21, after the dollar amount…

I would like to start by thanking Chairman Simpson and Ranking Member Kaptur for their hard work on this important legislation. My amendment transfers $2.2 million from the Department of Energy, Departmental Administration account, to the…

With the cascade of scandals that have arisen in the Federal Government and the level of incompetence and outright wrongdoing over the last 5 years, I am not surprised that Mr. Taylor has lost some faith in the government.