CBO has stated that our Nation's debt will overtake our economy by the end of the decade.

Earlier this week my Republican female colleagues spent an hour on the floor of this great Chamber talking about why they have chosen to come to Congress, talking about why they have chosen to leave the private sector and come to the…

Our constituents are hurting, we have unemployment at 9.1 percent.

I want to stay on this issue of forbearance.

Congress should slam the FCC's regulatory backdoor shut, lock it, and return the keys to the free market.

Any new regulations must require concrete examples of market failure and true consumer harm because there is no room for additional burdens on American industries and consumers without showing just cause.

But we need to move the Agency away from being an institution driven by activists pursuing social outcomes to one grounded in regulatory humility and statutory obedience.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. As you can see, this is a very simple bill. My amendment would require every single agency covered in this Ag appropriations bill to be accountable to the taxpayers by reducing one nickel out of a dollar for what…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Flake

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available by this Act (other than…

the American people are hopeful for jobs. And you all have dropped the ball. They are getting tired of this.

What you are doing isn't working. So this should be instructive to you, and I hope we can work with you on this.

Actions speak louder than words. And the American people have gotten very tired. They are ill and fatigued with the talk.

the proposed rule on the accountable care organizations is incomprehensible. It is huge, it is incomprehensible.

what you are doing with sending out all these regulations is wrong.

They are incredibly frustrated with--as one of my constituents said, 'You know, we used to get an update on a rule, a periodic, one-page update. Now the regulation comes in reams and reams and reams of paperwork.'

What they are asking us is, number one, how do you minimize identity theft? Number two, they want proper notifications from the venders that they are doing business with.

I thank the Chair for holding this hearing on securing our online data and privacy.

I hope that we will continue to look at the threat of digital protection of intellectual property.

Representatives from the industry have an obligation to explain to the American people exactly how our data is being hijacked, and what exactly they plan to do about it.

I do want to highlight that on the issue of the illegal downloads and file sharing, my home State of Tennessee has just passed and signed into law a bill that puts in place penalties for this.

They feel as if this is missing. And I know that as we address this, what we are going to have to look at is better government coordination, incentives for industry cooperation in this issue, stricter penalty deterrents against hackers…

I find it so interesting when you equate it to the brownouts, because so many of our entertainment industry innovators... want the certainty of the availability of that spectrum.

Policymakers must make bold, tough decisions on spectrum.

the innovators that I am talking to in Tennessee, some of them I have been working with for years ... want that certainty, and regulatory uncertainty right now is just a bear.