the true unemployment rate is 15.4 percent.

I thank the distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee for yielding and particularly for his leadership in being the number one budget hawk in the House. Mr. Chairman, hopefully by now, all Americans know we have a spending-driven debt…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate his leadership, and certainly his leadership as one of the foremost budget hawks in the entire United States Congress. Madam Chair, we just learned that the President will not be a day late…

When you yield unprecedented, unfettered, historic discretionary powers to the unelected bureaucracy, they will indeed use it.

I have many concerns about the unintended consequences of U.S. regulators steamrolling ahead with the Dodd-Frank Title VII regulations.

When you essentially give unfettered, unprecedented discretionary powers to unelected bureaucrats, they have a tendency to use it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him and I thank our Budget Committee chairman for their kind words and their great leadership for fiscal responsibility and job growth. Mr. Chairman, indeed, on Monday, the American people were…

Madam Chair, it is clear that the President's policies have failed. One in seven now have to rely on food stamps. Half of America now is either classified as low income or in poverty, and millions remain unemployed. Yesterday, the…

If we are not careful, Madam Chairwoman, we are going to wake up and see more failures and more consolidations of these community financial institutions.

We all know that too many of our financial institutions are fighting an uphill battle: the struggling economy; a monetary policy which is squeezing their profit margins; clearly, Dodd-Frank compliance; the Durbin language, which imposed…

Our community financial institutions are critical--critical to our small businesses, the job engine of America, and we have to do more to wring out some of the uncertainty in this system.