Kevin Brady

When is the Congress going to acknowledge that the current fiscal trends are simply unsustainable?

I agree with Mr. Conklin the churning of the health insurance adds to the problem a great deal, not just in the private sector.

It would be unacceptable if TARP or related funds, were used to leverage the profits of drug cartels or organized crime groups.

These bailouts risk prolonging the crisis while increasing the cost.

It is bankrupt, actuarially unsound, bankrupt here in the next 10 years, making promises it can't possibly hope to keep.

It is rampant with fraud; some believe 20 to 30 percent of the funding is waste within it.

I am not convinced that Medicare is necessarily the model we should be following.

I do think--I wish it were more balanced. The truth is, we do need serious efforts on reform in health care.

We need to halt the mad dash to big government as the solution to all of our problems.

I think obviously the major proponent of the new Administration's recovery plan is the stimulus package.

I think we'll prove that we are closer to a $2 trillion deficit this year.

The unemployment rate is already significantly above the Administration's forecast for all of 2009.

They inherited it from a Democratic Congress, and that's I think what fails to be said.

A realistic economic forecast would indicate that the fiscal situation is already very grim, with exploding deficits and debt for the foreseeable future.

These optimistic assumptions are a key foundation of the President's budget proposals and lead to artificially low deficit and debt projections.

I would like to submit for the record, Madam Chairman, a study by four economists...

The Administration's unduly optimistic economic assumptions are a major problem.

But I would just caution this Committee against such frivolous charges on such a serious subject.

I think we all have a responsibility to taxpayers and the truly disabled to make sure these precious dollars aren't lost to fraud and those who are gaming the system.

I think this is a bipartisan problem. Pending cases and the backlogs have not materially improved over the last 2 years under Democrat control of the House and the Senate.

The basic question of how is our money being spent and what are the results, is still unresolved.

There's too much secrecy in this TARP as it is, and we need transparency and accountability and results from the Congressional Oversight Panel on this important issue.

When President Bush first proposed it and the Democrat Congress led the effort to approve it, it was believed that the Congressional Oversight Panel would be the eyes and ears of this nation and of this Congress.

The economic outlook for the year is quite bleak.

The administration's solution to the problems posed by this excessive debt burden is to propose an avalanche of more deficit spending.