Jodey Arrington

It is imperative that the Congress begin to act immediately, and the failure to do so could indeed signal the end of the Republic as we know it.

So it is my strong belief that the Republican Party unilaterally will not be able to solve those issues, nor will the Democrat Party in this chamber, or in either chamber, solve the issues of Social Security and Medicare.

Ultimately, we have to have the political courage to act and that decision and responsibility is ours.

this Congress is going to have to muster the courage to fix this, and we can no longer hide behind the politics of everything

If you don't have that, it is not going to work.

So I think you have got to have the ability to have an expedited procedure in the United States Senate and then to have a vote.

The alternative, I believe, is to have a bipartisan fiscal commission.

If you believe, as most do, that it would be better for us not to have trillion dollar annual deficits and $33 trillion in debt, the course of action is not a mystery.

We are headed for serious results if we don't act. We need to act now.

Rising deficits and debt are an economic and a national security concern.

Policies have consequences. Over the last 2 years, we have seen a string of self-inflicted crises because of the policies of my Democratic colleagues and this President. Let me give you examples: $11 trillion over 2 years from my…

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I love Henry Cuellar, and I couldn't disagree more. More is said than done in this town. Ain't nothing getting done on the border. Texas, do your job. The Constitution is behind you, and so am I. God bless, and go, West Texas. I yield back…

I am grateful to my appropriator colleagues for rightsizing the bureaucracy and reining in the wasteful and unnecessary spending after this government grew 40 percent during COVID. The taxpayers deserve fiduciaries who spend their money…

it is immoral in my mind to rack up this kind of debt and to stack it and shift it as a deferred tax on our children

I go from thumping to gaveling.

I think when President Kennedy talked about cutting tax rates, maybe we were close to it then, but really, we are not there now.

We can't have China, Communist China, have a lower tax rate on their businesses, their job creators, than we do in the United States.

I associate myself with the remarks of my colleague on trade, and I look forward to opening up new markets, new customers for American producers and manufacturers.

If we implement President Biden's tax rates that he proposes in his budget, number one, it is almost $5 trillion dollars in new taxes.

Do we want to be the highest taxed business, job creators in the world or do we want to be the most competitive?

We have a debt problem that really could turn quickly into a debt crisis and that would be hard to bail.

President Biden, on the other hand, has unleashed an unprecedented barrage of regulations and executive actions at a record clip.

my civics teacher, Miss Becky Taylor, never told me there was a fourth branch of government.