That is why I have partnered with Chairman Hastings, Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Ranking Member Rush Holt and Rep. Bill Flores to introduce bipartisan legislation that seeks to address these impending crises.

I think since I have limited time, I am going to ask you, if you would, is to provide the Subcommittee staff with what it would take on each of the seven impediments, if you do not mind.

I would like to ask the VA in the strongest terms possible to fund and develop the functions that were listed by today's witnesses.

Unfortunately my time has expired, so I am going to now recognize the Ranking Member for any questions he may have.

I am looking forward to a productive and bipartisan 113th Congress.

I want to publicly thank Mr. Takano for agreeing to become an original co-sponsor of legislation which I have introduced.

Mr. Speaker, on February 2 America lost Naval Chief Petty Officer Christopher Scott Kyle in a tragic shooting. Chief Kyle was a true Texan who grew up learning the cowboy ways in central Texas. After a riding injury to his arm, his future…

So the lady on the corner that owns the dry cleaning store, when she has her taxes increased dramatically, is going to hire as many people and invest as much in the economy and continue with her expansion plans that she had prior to that…

This has been a much weaker recovery than we had in the early 1980s.

So, I mean, under that line of thinking, what you do is you raise the taxes to 100 percent on high-income people, and then spend all their money on government contracts.

Even the OMB by its own admission said that debt beyond the 10-year window was going to reach unsustainable levels, and the economy would suffer as a result of that.