Kevin Brady

Today's report is more disappointing news for American workers and their families.

The Obama Administration themselves approved British Petroleum's operational waivers on the wells.

There are almost 50,000 jobs directly related to those rigs in the Gulf Coast in the deep-water area.

I will, though, take comfort in telling our workers and small businesses in the Gulf Coast who will lose their jobs, are losing their jobs and losing their businesses due to the drilling moratorium, that they are, quote, 'a small price to…

They hold the super-majority in the House, the Senate, and they hold the White House.

What is frustrating I think is that this Congress, Democrat Congress, has had control over MMS that oversees the Gulf for three years and done nothing to reform it.

I think we are going to see some real impacts from that going forward in the future months.

I can't believe you just said a bright spot is that the unemployment rate fell. Do you realize that is because 652,000 Americans gave up looking for work?

And now with the drilling, trying to reinstate a drilling moratorium, they are intent on turning an environmental catastrophe into an economic catastrophe.

The cost of paying for inefficient and misdirected government programs through deficit spending will remain a debt burden on our children and grandchildren.

The Obama Administration is 7.4 million payroll jobs short of its fourth quarter promises.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that if we adopt President Obama's budget that we will be at 90 percent of our GDP by the end of this decade.

Every poll shows that Americans are increasingly concerned that this runaway spending, these dangerous levels of debt, will pull back, hold back economic growth.

I am convinced, just listening back home, that a lot of people are genuinely concerned not just about their own job but by the financial crisis here in America with our budget, very concerned.

I am particularly supportive of the $30 billion Small Business Lending Fund proposed by the Administration because it targets the small- and mid-sized community banks at the center of small-business lending.

While today's report on the April employment situation shows continued progress, we need to keep our eye on the most important thing: Creating jobs, jobs, jobs.

A painfully slow recovery is better than no recovery, but for the 15.3 million Americans who are out of work and waiting for Washington Democrats to finally focus on jobs, this report is disheartening.

Consumers and businesses are increasingly concerned that runaway government spending and a dangerous level of debt could lead America down the path on which Greece has now found itself.

I wonder if it is because the stimulus law has failed on so many accounts to deliver the employment growth that President Obama and congressional Democrats promised.

They are fearful about and have been about the health care mandates, about cap and trade, which would destroy 200,000 jobs in our region, 30 to $40 billion in new energy taxes that would discourage exploration production here in the United…

We have an eight-track tape stereo job training system in an iPad world, and it is serving us very poorly.

The problem with subsidizing employment is the job only lasts as long as the taxpayers pay for it, and we are running trillion dollar deficits last year and for this year and for the next decade if we don't change our ways.

To accelerate economic growth, create millions of new jobs, and address the Obama unemployment bubble, we need to restore America to the best business climate in the world in which to invest, innovate, and produce.

I am convinced the reason we are having such a subpar economic recovery is that uncertainty that has been created by the agenda up here in Washington.

I would remind people the Democratic Congress handed President Obama a trillion dollar deficit, eight times larger than Republicans when we held this Congress. The stimulus bill alone was larger than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And…