Kevin Brady

We want our companies competing in every corner of the globe and winning.

Our first hearing revealed a number of significant abuses, or potential abuses, of power by the IRS.

And what you have described is the long arm of the Federal Government coming in to you, coming in to your organization, and essentially telling you, we'll tell you what to think, we'll tell you how to pray. Heaven help us. Heaven help us.

This is about abuse of power.

I think what is the most alarming and what is the most scary is that when you allow the government to go so far and you don't stop them, they go farther.

The President's new health care law is creating a great deal of uncertainty and impacting job hiring today.

I do not know that I agree with the assertion that everything good in the economy... has occurred because of adroit monetary policy.

I think the Fed played a critical role in calming the financial crisis.

I think monetary policy has limits, and QE, quantitative easing, has run its course.

In the near term, these extraordinary monetary actions become an enabler of bad fiscal policy, allowing President Obama and Congress to avoid the tough and necessary decisions.

The Fed's extraordinary monetary actions pose three risks to our economy.

I just believe that at this point in the recovery, while it is very fragile, it really is the fiscal roadblocks... that are really key to getting this economy going.

I do not question the intention of current Fed policy to fulfill its dual mandate, but I question the policy's effect on employment, and I worry about its future risks.

At this point, the patient ought to be out of the hospital, done with rehab, and playing baseball with its kids.

The urgency cannot be overstated. And yet we want to build on what we know works, and we want to do what we can to eliminate that which we know does not work.

I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the President's budget and other bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare.

The current Medicare spending trajectory is unsustainable. There is bipartisan recognition that modifying seniors' cost-sharing is appropriate and can be done in a way that maintains access to critical healthcare services. Medicare is fast…

I think we are all agreed that those kinds of things and the kind of delivery system reform that we have all been talking about is key.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. What is disgraceful are these thousands of pages of a bill that was rushed through this Congress with little chance to read it, laden with special interest provisions to buy off votes, while…

At this time, Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to a long distinguished Member of this House and one who is very knowledgeable of health care and the costs to families and businesses, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston).

I am honored to yield 1 minute to the author of the legislation that we are debating today, the gentlelady from Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann).

I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to a new member of the Ways and Means Committee, a job creator, a businessman himself, who has had to deal with rising health care costs, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly).

Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might, to harass and intimidate and threaten an average American who only wants her voice and their voices heard?

I would like to thank Vice Chair Klobuchar for choosing the topic of today's hearing, 'Women in Manufacturing.'

The United States is suffering from an economic growth gap, and manufacturing is no exception.