Kevin Brady: “I want to thank the former chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Congresswoman Maloney, for her leadership, and…”

“I want to thank the former chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Congresswoman Maloney, for her leadership, and continue to enjoy working with you on these economic issues. Tonight, we have talked a lot about the growth gap and about the prospect that America's future could be much dimmer. The truth is fiscal challenges facing our Nation are great, but they are not insurmountable if we are willing to take the necessary steps, if we are willing to be less popular, willing to do the right thing. As I said in my opening statement, the single most important thing we can do for families for America to start paying its bills as a government is to take the restrictor plate off our economy. This recovery is substandard, the weakest since World War II. The growth gap is large and growing. The private sector jobs gap is large and growing. The gap in personal income for families is large and growing. We are adding more people to food stamps than we are getting jobs since the bottom of this recession. That is no way to build a strong middle class. It is a formula for making people more dependent on the Federal Government. That may be some people's vision of America's future, but not ours. So, if we are to change the future economic growth of America upside, if we are to increase economic growth in jobs and income growth, we need to restore the promise of economic opportunity in optimism.…”