The President has said he wants a clean debt ceiling increase.

Help us walk down that path and show why it is not a failure of leadership today to vote yes.

Earlier in the conversation you talked about one of the bases in the budget is simplification of corporate tax rates, and the reason for that was competitiveness and more jobs, lower rate, broader base. That way you create more investment…

Most families and most businesses that I know of cannot operate in primary balance.

This doesn't get better than primary balance.

Thank you Mr. Chairman, and thank you Director Lew for joining us today.

Mr. Speaker, one of the top concerns I am hearing from my constituents is the state of our economy and jobs, and that is why I rise today in support of this resolution directing the committees of the House to examine and exercise oversight…

And to add insult to injury, when asked if their regulations had a cost benefit analysis, they said that they didn't need them, that their rules were the most cost-effective in government. I strongly beg to differ. I think that the…

I think that the economic models will show that changes in tax policy have a much bigger impact on economic growth than do changes in Federal spending.

There's a natural debt level for any organization... They cannot be exceeded without substantial turmoil.

I'm afraid that the Obama Administration is taking us in the wrong direction--locking away our own energy resources and making us more dependent on foreign energy from unstable parts of the world.