Pete Olson: “They want that freedom, that independence, and right now we can do that.”

I ask this Subcommittee to fully fund the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and put the highest priority on projects which have the biggest impact on our U.S. economy.

American taxpayers and future generations deserve honest accounting, not more gimmicks that attempt to paper over our huge and unsustainable deficits.

I am stunned that it has been decades since America has made a commitment to real, new nuclear power. We should be ashamed of that.

Balancing a budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what it takes to get there.