Kevin Brady

I can assure you that we will do it.

As you know, our economy is in a tough situation here. Two-and-a-half years after recovery has supposedly started, we have almost 20 million Americans unable find a full-time job; yet we have companies, ranchers, businesses, technologies…

I disagree. With so many Americans out of work and GDP growth having slowed to a less than 1 percent annual rate in the first half of this year, additional actions are needed to strengthen the economy.

My frustration is that after 15 years, we don't know if this works.

This ought to be working. After 15 years, it isn't.

The President's jobs message was clear and powerful: Government made America great, and government can make it great again. This misguided view explains why 2 years after the recession supposedly ended, we are still left suffering with a…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You may not sense it from some of the remarks today, but, in truth, this bill has strong bipartisan support, and I rise in support of this legislation renewing the Preference program as one valuable step Congress…

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

We cannot do that until we pry Washington's hands off the throats of America's job creators.

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.

Clearly the longer they are without a job, the bigger the challenge it is getting them back to work.

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

It is no secret that I am not a big fan of the stimulus. A lot of money. A lot of debt. Few jobs.

I share Chairman Casey's concerns about the long-term unemployed.

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

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…

It's important we know, as we try to change this government, that we're actually making changes in the direction it's going. Without the Budget Control Act, our government will be over 23 percent of the size of our economy by the end of…

Chairman Camp, the bill, ladies and gentlemen, has come due. Because Congress holds the purse strings, we just ran the numbers. Since World War II, Democrats in Congress have run up 90 percent of the debt that's held by the public. Ninety…

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.

I thank Chairman Shuster for the time. I might point out that our energy companies are making major profits overseas because that's where this White House has chased our jobs and our energy production. Today we're saying ``yes'' to North…

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.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 56, after line 9, insert the following new section: SEC. 20. NOTIFICATION TO RESIDENTS NEWLY INCLUDED…