Kevin Brady

If Congress doesn't act, are you concerned about the future of Social Security?

Right now, we are borrowing to make up the difference.

You would have to be in denial to believe we don't have a real problem in this program.

Today's job numbers are heartbreaking for job seekers, especially coming on a string of bad economic news.

In fact, it is that stability, quite frankly, that has made North Dakota one of the top job creators in the Nation.

Investment in research and development in life sciences creates good, high-paying jobs; keeps the United States on the cutting edge of global competitiveness.

I appreciate, too, at this point being considered in Congress as we strive toward a lower, more competitive, simpler tax code.

Congress should expand and extend this program.

At 35 percent, the United States has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.

It is time we modernize the R&D tax credit; strengthen it to encourage companies to make even more substantial investments.

Mapping the human genome? No problem. Simplifying the tax code? Hmmm, not so sure.

We need to rethink our approach to incentives.

The goal today is to find out how we become competitive to make sure that we have the strongest economy of the 21st century.

It is costing us jobs.

As opposed to health care where our local doctors, for example, don't compete globally to provide services to us, our businesses do compete globally for customers.

If we can eliminate that obstacle, there is no question that much of the cash we refer to as 'trapped' overseas would return here, to be invested in some way, shape, or form in the United States.

To grow America's economy, it is simply not enough to buy American, we have to sell American

We need to simplify the Tax Code.

I think it all has to be on the table.

It is frustrating beyond words to see the excruciatingly slow progress in employment growth.

The rise in jobless claims and the jump in workers recently laid off are not signs of a healthy economy.

We need still faster private sector job creation. Otherwise, millions of U.S. workers will languish in unemployment.

We actually have 1.8 million fewer Americans working than before when all that money was spent.

Every month of new job growth is welcome, but this is by any measure an exceptionally weak recovery.

Yielding myself 30 seconds, I can't help but think many Democrats are eager for everyone else to sacrifice. What about government? Why can't government sacrifice a little? All of those obsolete agencies and all of those wasteful programs…