Consumers and businesses are increasingly concerned that runaway government spending and a dangerous level of debt could lead America down the path on which Greece has now found itself.

Every poll shows that Americans are increasingly concerned that this runaway spending, these dangerous levels of debt, will pull back, hold back economic growth.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that if we adopt President Obama's budget that we will be at 90 percent of our GDP by the end of this decade.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 5160, the Haitian Economic Lift Program Act. This bill will provide real economic benefits to Haiti to help it recover from the devastating earthquake on January 12 that claimed so many lives and…

I wonder if it is because the stimulus law has failed on so many accounts to deliver the employment growth that President Obama and congressional Democrats promised.

I am convinced the reason we are having such a subpar economic recovery is that uncertainty that has been created by the agenda up here in Washington.

They are fearful about and have been about the health care mandates, about cap and trade, which would destroy 200,000 jobs in our region, 30 to $40 billion in new energy taxes that would discourage exploration production here in the United…

We have an eight-track tape stereo job training system in an iPad world, and it is serving us very poorly.

The problem with subsidizing employment is the job only lasts as long as the taxpayers pay for it, and we are running trillion dollar deficits last year and for this year and for the next decade if we don't change our ways.

To accelerate economic growth, create millions of new jobs, and address the Obama unemployment bubble, we need to restore America to the best business climate in the world in which to invest, innovate, and produce.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself so much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I support American workers and families, and that is why I must oppose the legislation before us that would heap another $18 billion onto the dangerous deficits this…