Kevin Brady

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.

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

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?

As I yield the balance of our time to the gentlelady from Tennessee, I make the case, this is simply choice. Those who want to stop fraud in ObamaCare support this bill. Those who want to turn a blind eye to that fraud oppose it. I yield…

Yielding myself 15 seconds, yesterday we learned the Federal Government is paying millions of dollars to prisoners for unemployment benefits, millions of dollars of your money to cons in prison. But don't worry, we'll stop the fraud in…

I reserve the balance of my time in case the gentleman from Washington has additional speakers or would like to close on his side. We are prepared to close. Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr…

the $2,500 reduction in healthcare cost the President promised my constituents is nowhere to be found.

You know, my family is worried that if Obamacare is not ready for business, is it ready for their family, for their children, for their loved ones, and there are a lot of lives at stake in health care.

Why let impasse on other things be the enemy of the good, the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I believe we can get meaningful corporate tax reform. Very important for the future.

Net growth must become the national goal of the United States of America, and we should not do anything that discourages it.

America's current tax code is too costly, too complex, and unfair, but mostly unfair.

It makes no sense at all.

I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana, a physician who practiced medicine for 30 years, chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, Dr. Boustany.

Ambassador, congratulations on your new role. Thank you for the critical role that you played in reaching sales agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.

We cannot even tell the American people the right way. We wait until Friday afternoon, which is the way everything comes out of this Administration.

Why did you make the decision that Warren Buffett gets relief from ObamaCare but Joe Six Pack does not?

If ObamaCare is not ready, as this decision implies, then why didn't the Administration delay both the employer mandate and the individual mandate?

Our hearing today showed that businesses and their employees are grappling with the effects of this ruling, potentially putting not only their financial security at risk, but also their health security.

They are asking to be treated as fairly as businesses are. Warren Buffett gets a break, Joe Six Pack does not, the single mom working at the restaurant does not.

Labor unions have come out, leaders have come out full force this week saying ObamaCare will shatter their health care.

This is too big of a decision to put in a `blog' post. The Treasury Department owes American families, businesses and this Committee answers.

I expect a little better performance, and I expect a little better return on the investment by the American taxpayers.

The employer mandate is a flawed provision that has resulted in lost jobs, fewer hours and a loss of wages, while doing nothing at all to make health insurance more affordable--which is what individuals, employers and workers want and need.

The claim that the Administration has been starved just has no basis in fact.