Randy Neugebauer

I believe the task ahead for this committee... is, number one, stop the bleeding.

In the battle for resources to fight bugs, drugs and thugs, bugs always lose.

I believe that the introduction of foot-and-mouth would be devastating and that all reasonable steps should be made--must be taken to prevent an introduction of this or any other foreign animal disease into the United States.

But I don't understand why we would put the American taxpayers' dollars at the bottom of the food chain.

I want to reiterate one point that was made earlier, and I think is maybe one of the most important points that has been made here today, and that is that we don't have another $350 billion. In fact, we didn't have the first $350 billion…

this summer, spring, we sent Americans a stimulus check to help stimulate the economy. We actually gave them some money. We had already spent the money that they had given us for taxes, and so we went and borrowed some money and sent that…

I think the number one premise that the American people need to be listening, as we have this debate, about further actions that this government might take to intervene in these markets, is to remind everybody whose money this is. Now…

I rise today to talk about energy, the fact that this is the people's House and the people are speaking. They are speaking loud and clear. Unfortunately, I do not think that the Democratic leadership is listening to the people. Survey…

we're today talking about making sure that, in the event of a disaster, that we have the funds and we don't have to go through a lot of red tape to make sure that we can restore this housing, when it's repairable, in a feasible way, and to…

I have been listening to a lot of rhetoric on the other side about it is time for a change in America. I agree. It is time for the Democrats to change their votes and stop voting against producing energy that belongs to Americans. One of…

just a little over 5 years ago, on June 5, 2003, I stepped on the floor of this House to take the oath of office to be only the fourth Member of Congress from the 19th Congressional District, the 236th Texan, to ever serve in the United…

Where is the plan? If the Democrats do not have a plan to lower energy costs for the American people, please bring some of the Republican proposals that we have already designed and which will begin to bring immediate relief. The other…

Every day America gets up and writes a check for $1 billion-plus to buy enough energy to run this country for 1 day. What does that mean? That means that it takes $365 billion currently for America to buy enough energy just to run our…

it's not working. The policy of ``no'' to producing America's resources is not working for the American people. Today, America will write a check for $1 billion to buy enough energy to run our economy for one day. Let me repeat that…

I rise in support of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. There have been a lot of figures and a lot of terms thrown around in this room today about payment limits and adjusted gross income, but let's really talk about what this…

We have to make a decision today. In this energy situation this country is in, we are relying on other people to provide energy for America. Are we going to let American agriculture die so we have to let other countries feed and clothe…

Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, there are many good and decent people who are in financial distress right now across this country. Some with mortgages they can't afford. Some made poor financial decisions. Some were victims of fraud. Some were…

Mr. Speaker, I've spent nearly three decades in the housing business. And over those three decades the housing market has gone up and the housing market has had its soft moments, and one of the soft moments we're experiencing today. I…

for nearly 35 years prior to coming to the United States Congress, I was involved in the housing business in one form or the other. I've built housing for sale, I've built housing for rent. And one of the things that you learn very quickly…

I urge my colleagues to be very careful here. We do not need for the Federal Government to be the piggy bank for folks that made poor decisions or to bail out the lenders that made loans to people that really didn't have the capacity to…

Because we let American agriculture infrastructure fall to the wayside. Our producers are competing on an unlevel playing field. I wish the playing field was level. If the playing field was level, we wouldn't need any of these programs…

I think before I go down and list some of the reform that is being considered in this current farm bill, I think we have to step back and look at what has transpired with the 2002 farm bill. The 2002 farm bill actually cost $25 billion…

I do understand that there could be a small minority of housing authorities trying to accomplish some purpose by keeping those units vacant, but I would say we are being probably more prescriptive for the ones that are vacant.

I believe there is a concept that I strongly support, and one that I think a lot of Members of this body support, that when government is too prescriptive, then good ideas and innovation get suppressed. This is the reason I brought forward…

I think anytime that we can make sure that our people involved in housing, homeowners, renters, everybody, has the appropriate counseling is a good strategy, because in many cases what we find is people lose their assets or lose…