Kevin Brady

If we keep overspending, our interest payments will become an increasingly larger part of our budget.

Washington has lost touch with the American people--that was the lesson in November and yet some still refuse to listen.

As the government grows, jobs along Main Street shrink.

There is no substitute for private investment to spur the economy.

The impact on our economy from those economists, I believe, is wildly exaggerated.

It is time to stop listening to the economists who got it wrong and start looking at a proven approach.

Many of those economists have been wrong.

Moreover, President Obama warns that reducing federal spending at this time will pose a threat to the current economic recovery.

President Obama believes that the federal government, not the free enterprise system, will lead the way in creating jobs.

I must express my disappointment that neither President Obama's Budget nor his Economic Report exhibited any urgency in addressing the serious fiscal challenges facing our nation.

Countries that reduced their government budget deficits...can boost their economy and job creation in the short term.

I am disappointed that neither President Obama's budget nor the economic report really exhibited any urgency toward addressing our financial challenges in America.

Our government spends money like drunken sailors, but that would insult the sailors because at least they spend their own money.

It is time to put an end to the runaway spending and the record deficits.

Our debt is a threat to our national security.

My freshman colleagues and I were sent here to turn Washington's culture of spending on its head.

We need to be a Congress that supports personal freedoms, individual liberties, and economic opportunities for all Americans.

So, Texans have spent billions of dollars to make our air cleaner and businesses have invested, as well, over the last decade; and yet the EPA is imposing and seizing our permits.

And we're having and seeing and dealing with this Environmental Protection Agency regulating us away from market-based solutions.

I strongly believe that we should consider all three agreements by July 1st.

Failure to move forward with the U.S.-Colombia trade agreement is undermining U.S. influence and leadership in our own hemisphere and putting at risk both good U.S. jobs and the competitiveness of U.S. exporters.

According to the President's own statements, these agreements have the ability to create over 250,000 American jobs.

The good news is you are saying there haven't been any jobs lost to the medical loss ratio mandate?

If this health care plan is so great for the economy, why are they having to lay off their own workers?

This health care plan I think will drive workers out of the plans they have into the more expensive exchanges