I commend this committee and the Congress, and to both sides of the aisle, for the commitment to this endeavor.
This Congress is making no distinctions in its zeal to slash and threatening institutions along the way.
We need to put the nearly $40 billion in taxpayer subsidies that go to mature, profitable oil companies on the table.
That just doesn't pass for common sense.
I applaud the Budget Committee and your chairman for focusing much needed attention on the fiscal crisis in our country.
This Congress has been focused solely on 12% of the federal budget.
The only way we are going to accomplish that goal is by putting everything on the table.
America has a debt problem. There is no denying that fact.
Representative Cummings has been the leader in Congress in focusing attention on what the impacts are in neighborhoods.
It has been informative for me to listen to everybody because I go back to the basic proposition that the debit cards and the credit cards a...
Merchants have literally no power individually to be able to negotiate a price.