Kevin Brady

I don't know how anyone could believe that the way to jump-start our stalled economy is to heap new taxes on the very professions and small businesses most critical to a recovery.

To add insult to injury, the President is coming to Texas next week to raise campaign cash but apparently does not have an hour--not even 15 minutes--to spare for our American workers whose jobs he is killing.

The average Texas family will see increases, tax increase of about $3,000 a year

Why is it that only government workers, Commissioner, get a bailout?

What about them? They're not asking for a bailout. They just want to go back to work.

Despite their promises, the economic plan of President Obama and Congressional Democrats has failed to restore consumer confidence--a key element to economic recovery.

What about the energy workers who are losing their jobs due to the drilling moratorium the President has in place today?

The signal this Democratic Congress is sending is clear: we'll spend whatever taxpayer money it takes to save a government job, the rest of you American workers can take a hike.

If you take $3,000 a family out of people's pockets, they send it here to Washington rather than going to the local store

How can Congressional Democrats possibly be proud of these devastating economic failures?

90 percent of Americans believe that the economy is in bad shape. Almost 3 out of every 4 believe it won't get better anytime soon.

As for jump starting the economy, it is now slowing and every sector has lost jobs, unless you're a government worker.

So much for 'hope and change.'

With millions of American families out of work, Republicans will fight for American energy workers and their jobs. The question is will Democrats fight alongside us? The drilling moratorium is killing American energy jobs now. It needs to…

This bill is a thinly disguised roadblock, a permanent roadblock to American energy. It will drive American companies out of the gulf, delay future drilling, increase dependence on foreign oil, kill 300,000 good-paying U.S. energy jobs and…

This recovery is different. America's not bouncing back because government's in the way, because this Congress is the obstacle, this White House is the obstacle. Stop passing tax increases. Stop standing in the way of our jobs, of our…

The ill-conceived Gulf drilling moratorium flies in the face of everything common sense tells us about our precarious energy future and what we should be doing about it today.

You have communities that stretch from the suburbs of Houston over to southeast Texas, which has some of the highest unemployment rates in the State of Texas. These are the workers tied to these companies. Can you describe how…

It is. Well, because they're not permitting. As you know, initially, the moratorium, over the advice of a number of scientists, was extended to both the shallow and deep waters. And then it was lifted in the shallow waters. But no…

Already, Diamond Offshore's announced that the first rig is leaving the United States for Egypt. They are already leaving, planning to leave others for West Africa, the Middle East, Brazil, and those points. And as they made the point…

I think we probably produce about 30 percent. Much of the specialty oil is for jet fuel and a number of our fuels.

They have failed to support our Gulf Coast governors and local communities in protecting the marshes and beaches.

I do think it is the policies of Washington that is holding this recovery back.

So if next month another 600,000 people give up looking for work, should we organize some parade to cheer it?

This recovery certainly is not consistent with the recovery of 1981 and 1982, where job growth and unemployment were again three times better than the Obama recovery.