The major driver of our long-term liabilities--everybody here knows it--is Medicare and Medicaid and our health-care spending. Nothing comes close.

Mr. Speaker, the American people want more jobs and they want less debt. The American people are telling Washington, you have got to quit spending money you don't have. You have got to quit borrowing 42 cents on the dollar, much of it from…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this Nation has a debt crisis not because we are undertaxed but because Washington spends too much. And here we are days before the President's August 2 deadline, and the President of the…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I thank her for her leadership on this issue. Mr. Chairman, already we know that in America we are looking at 9.2 percent unemployment. Since the President told us if we would pass his stimulus plan…

Mr. Speaker, this Nation suffers from a surplus of deficits. First, our seniors have a health care deficit because, in the last Congress, Democrats cut Medicare by a half a trillion dollars, hastening its bankruptcy and then creating a new…

Let's raise taxes on job creators. Mr. President, the American people don't want that.

Mr. Speaker, every day in my district in Texas, I hear from small business people who tell me, I'm afraid to hire new workers because I think this national debt will end up bankrupting my business, not to mention my country. The American…

The President's answer? Let's raise taxes on job creators. Mr. President, the American people don't want that.

The president's answer? Let's raise taxes on job creators. Mr. President, the American people don't want that.

The President's answer? Let's raise taxes on job creators. Mr. President, the American people don't want that.

The president's answer? Let's raise taxes on job creators. Mr. President, the American people don't want that.