Funding by states and the federal government to implement the changes should be withheld until the legal status of this law is settled.

I try to participate every year because I do believe it is an important part of the process.

The President has decimated our Mars exploration budget, cancelled our plans to return to space exploration.

Unfortunately, uncertainty in Medicare is not the only issue facing our nation's seniors.

My legislation, HR 103 is an idea that grew out of a town hall meeting in my district.

I am asking you today that when this committee does write its budget that you preserve the funding levels in the President's Budget, or even better if possible, increase them.

Well, very good. I hope the gentleman will stick around. I've got a few points I want to make, but at any point you feel like you want to expand upon something, please feel free to join back in. We often hear the saying that there's…

the taxpayer has taken a pretty bad hit on this, and while I want the companies to do well, I think at some point we may have to put the taxpayers' needs and wants ahead of those of the companies.

According to H&R Block, which is one of the major preparers of income taxes in this country, now 60 percent of Americans use some type of preparer for their income tax return, and quite likely that number is going to increase. In 1960…

I do not believe that the President's budget takes us there; in fact, I believe it undercuts that investment.

I urge this committee to take into account the problems that we are going to encounter with a sustainable growth rate formula...

The President's budget sacrifices 'Einsteinian' science at the political alter of trying to compete with the private sector.