It seems like we could do this if we just had the political will to take it.

I think that there is a lot of the American electorate, a lot of the American people, feel that simplifying the tax system should be one of our highest priorities.

My personal feeling is the Tax Code is not the proper means for achieving those.

I thank the chairman for yielding. A lot of people have asked, if you're going to do a Republican budget, why do you even involve yourself in the President's new health care law? They've asked, Why is it necessary for the Republican budget…

Christmas Eve, December 24, 2009, Resolved, that the bill from the House of Representatives H.R. 3590 entitled, An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time home buyers credit in the case of members of the…

Yesterday I had the opportunity over at the Supreme Court to witness the oral arguments on the individual mandate. I believe I could tell from the faces of the Justices that there was significant skepticism about this provision of the…

I wholeheartedly concur, and I congratulate the President for being correct on this.

If we cared about asthmatics, if we weren't conducting a war on asthmatics, we would allow this to happen.

I would just submit to you some of the boom we are seeing in energy production, and I am grateful that the gas is there.

I thank the chairman for the recognition. Mr. Chairman, I will focus my remarks on the Independent Payment Advisory Board because it encompasses all that is wrong with the Affordable Care Act. The health law itself contains policies that…

There are a lot of things that the last Congress and this Congress has done to sort of kick cans down various roads, and it looks to me like all the roads end in December of this year.

President Obama himself, and he is from the White House, told us this last year when he had all us down there to talk to us about the debt limit, he referenced how expensive health care was.