Kevin Brady

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

the recovery will continue to be subpar as businesses delay critical hiring and investment decisions due to the uncertainty generated by President Obama and Congressional Democrats

I rise in opposition to the bill which includes a number of provisions which would hurt our Nation's airlines, especially when many are suffering losses. By sunsetting in 3 years the antitrust immunity for airlines participating in…

Another week, another stimulus. This ministimulus, the third or fourth such effort--I've lost count--is more proof of the failed economic policies of Washington Democrats and an acknowledgment that the massive $860 billion stimulus bill…

Today we're debating more disaster- related spending. What we have to ask ourselves, what about the money Congress has already sent to help families and communities? As I stand here, Texas is still waiting for the supplemental disaster…

The government promised you health care. When forced to buy the government-approved plan or face the tax man, you complied. But the cost didn't go down, it went up; it's the highest ever. It takes now 3 months to see a doctor. And when you…

I thank and commend the gentlelady from Guam for her resolution. We have so many heroes, aviators who have been shot down in foreign countries, defending our freedom and enduring tremendous hardship, even death. One of those who was shot…

Isn't this troubling? Eight out of ten Americans now believe Congress governs without the consent of the governed. The Democratic Congress and White House simply aren't listening. Americans oppose this $2 trillion takeover of health care…

Earlier this week the White House attempted to sort of spin the bad numbers in advance, knowing that their policies have failed our economy miserably.

The uncertainty in America among job creators in the public is palpable.

We are worse than the European Union. We are falling behind countries like South Korea.

We are seeing that in proposals to punish U.S. energy companies who produce jobs and invest here in the United States.

the snow storms, localized snow storms, would distort the unemployment and jobs numbers of today.