Kevin Brady

America deserves a strong, growing economy that fully employs our people and is the envy of the world.

Washington needs to get out of the way. It needs to end its job-killing rhetoric, the regulations, and intervention.

It has declined yet again in July to about 63.9 percent. This is the lowest since the early 1980s.

We certainly got the debt, and now that too is a drag on our economy, on business confidence and on family confidence.

We were told if we passed it that unemployment would be about 6.3 percent today. Way off.

I support this bill as a first step, anxious to get to more spending and savings and getting this wasteful, bloated government down to size. And I know, too, any vote, my principle is tax cuts and spending cuts. If I can change the…

Under President Obama, federal spending has grown far beyond the ability of our tax system to generate revenues.

Business investment in new buildings, equipment, and software drive job creation--not Federal spending.

Under this President, Federal spending has grown far beyond the ability of our tax system to generate revenues from American families and businesses sufficient to pay for Washington's overspending.

The United States is on the precipice of a financial crisis because Washington really spends too much relative to the size of our economy.

We cannot rely on the private sector alone to make the investments and develop the programs that will ensure that the United States has the skilled workforce our economy needs.

I am convinced that if we do not make a concerted effort to produce the workforce needed by manufacturers that it will mean nothing less than giving up on much of the middle class.

Brady and I are sending a letter to the Treasury and IRS, seeking an administrative solution to a regulation that is choking investment in the real estate sector at a time when we need more, not less, investment here.

Clearly, we can't tax our way to sustainable solvency.

By transitioning to higher-value products, America leads the world in manufacturing output.

The U.S. manufacturing sector has changed dramatically over the last several decades.

Today U.S. manufacturers produce two-thirds of what our country consumes, down from 80 percent three decades ago.

It is real-life testimony, and we need to hear it as we look at how do we revive this economy.

Manufacturing remains an important part of our economy.

President Obama's economic policies have failed to launch a vigorous expansion.

I do think it needs a great deal more work. There is bipartisan support for this.

The amount of days it takes SSA to process the earnings and overpayments is not acceptable by anyone.

Six years after its recommendation was made and no actual implementation occurred.

There is plenty of waste and fraud and abuse throughout this whole government system, and we shouldn't hesitate to go after every dollar of this.

I would not be holding any parades for the Obama administration on disaster recovery, unfortunately.