I bring this amendment forward tonight, just as I do every single year for these appropriations bills, because it is so important that we get the out-of-control spending here in Washington, D.C., under control. We all know that at this…

Why in this time when our constituents are saying the federal government takes too much out of our pockets and it wastes money that we don't have?

I think as you can hear from the questions that we are asking, it does appear that HHS is now too big to control.

I would be interested to see what you found. I know what my experience was as a Tennessee State senator and how the program failed to live up to what the promises were.

How does stewardship of the taxpayer dollar figure in to the decisions...

How can you be so dismissive of that? I mean, does that not concern me?

Our constituents come to us and they let us know they are taxed too much, they are tired of it and they are frustrated with seeing the waste in our federal bureaucracies.

You have gotten too unwieldy. You are into areas where you should not necessarily be.

While most of the American public has never heard of the Act, it has been a cornerstone of conservation and stewardship policy for more than a century.

The Government Accountability Office says that cyberattacks have grown by 650 percent in 5 years and that the annual cost of these attacks is estimated to be $388 billion. Allowing these trends to proliferate is bad for job creation…

OK. So all of these innovators in the auto industry, and the financial service industry, and the banking industry, and the insurance industry, the entertainment industry, the health care industry, all of those guys that have been saying…

each of these reports would encompass a massive expansion of government. And in my opinion, it would put some limits on our individual liberties.

President Obama's ObamaCare plan not only raises many constitutional questions, but it is creating an environment where younger Americans, like my little nephew, Preston James Hunter, who was born last night, will be forced to live in a…

Now with my constituents in Tennessee, as we have discussed privacy, one of the things they have brought up to me most often is, hey, you know we don't want be classified as a data broker.

We have to remember we live in a data-driven information age.

I thank the chairman for the hearing today.

One of the things that also has come out is that the Federal Government needs to be leading by example.

So you are seeing solid results?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I find it so interesting, as we are here debating this bill, that this is only a 21-page bill. And I don't find, Mr. Chairman, in this bill, I don't find the words ``constrained'' and ``straitjacket''…

The American people believe the auto industry can grow and prosper without diminishing our efforts to make our highways safer.

We are honored to have our esteemed colleague, Congressman Lewis, with us for our first panel.

So basically you are saying this is a bad investment for the taxpayer?

Then let me approach it this way with you because reading this is of concern to me...

$500 billion has come out of Medicare.

tax payer money is not the federal government's money. It is the tax payer money, and we, as members, are charged with being wise and judicious and responsible stewards of those funds.