Kevin Brady

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

The economic outlook for the year is quite bleak.

But the economy doesn't send the President spending bills, does it? This Congress sends the President spending bills.

So you are saying it is inaccurate that you have inherited this deficit from both President Bush and the Democratic Congress? That it is not true?

It is sad that this House has imposed a gag rule so that the American public can't hear today what's in this bill. The special interests know what's in this bill. They certainly do. Congress is going to rain billions of dollars of cash…

That's what I thought. This bill is a shame and an insult to families who are trying to pay their gas bills.

Well, bring down the map and identify an acre and tell us how much oil is underground and who has refused to drill.