What has become abundantly clear, the flaw is not the Web site, the flaw is the law itself.

So why should the American people believe you now?

My constituents are frightened. Like millions of Americans, they are now being forced out of the health care plan that they like.

As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman taught, the best single measure of Washington's burden on Main Street is federal spending as a share of the economy.

I can't think of a more important time to be doing exactly that.

There is no way that we are going to default or miss interest payments or miss payments.

America will not default on our debt. Nor will the debt ceiling be lifted without addressing the unsustainability of the government's finances.

Negotiations over the debt ceiling provide both parties with an opportunity to enact a 21st century strategy to put America's finances in order for the long haul.

It seems to me, at this point in time, we need a lot less political posturing and talking points and a lot more meaningful discussion.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the heroic efforts of Lieutenant Michael Edwin Thornton of the United States Navy in Montgomery, Texas. Lieutenant Thornton was a senior adviser to Vietnamese Navy SEAL patrols and was awarded his Medal…

Does anyone believe the President's and the Senate Democrats' position that we will pass a debt ceiling limit without any checks or balances on spending?