Glenn Grothman

The Federal Government ought not be involved in this stuff or should be much less involved.

I think the whole purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act--it was put together by people who do not necessarily trust employers to do the best thing for their employees.

It seems to me that rather than having us people in Washington tell them what is best for them, would it not be better to allow the employee to determine what is in their best interest and best interest of their family?

It seems to me that this is such a wide open program, covering so many different things.

I would encourage my colleagues to vote for the bill. The reason I ask you to vote for the bill is kind of like the reverse: What is going to happen if this bill fails? If this bill fails, you won't be able to have the huge increase in…

Already a third of the counties only have one provider. If we don't pass this bill now, we are going to go into the next year and we are going find a lot of people who think they have ObamaCare but have nothing because there will be no…

Do you see why people are concerned about having the government have access to data in which you can tell where I am at any given time?

There's a general perception out there, and I'm sure the government wouldn't do a very good job if they had to come up with these new drugs, but a general perception that, to me, both sometimes drugs are overprescribed and sometimes you…

Do you think, in the past, the government's done a good job in making sure data is only accessed for legal purposes?

I think that subsidy sometimes leads us to excess academic staff, but I suppose it also--you did not say benefits the students.

I know in many ways in this country we hate the middle class. We love the rich. We love the poor. We hate the middle class.

Sometimes they use these Pell grants for goodies and electronics, and they resent the fact that by doing it right, their kids are penalized.

I received anecdotal evidence in my district of people not getting married because, of course, if you do not get married, it is easier to be in poverty and get Pell grants.

Is that not horrible, the way our government--like Karl Marx said, we just want to destroy the American family?

People get tired of the American government hating the middle class.

I think you are naive. I think they do it on purpose.

While HLF was brought to justice, the Obama Administration refused to investigate these unindicted co-conspirators.

Okay, Mr. DeVries. GAO found that personnel management had not yet completed and submitted a data center optimization plan.

I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Chairman, it is not a surprise, when you try to take over such a sizable chunk of America's economy, that you have all sorts of unintended bad consequences. I am going to focus on two consequences that are true…

I think our forefathers were antithetical to the government growing at all.

I tell everybody back home, I was a state legislator for 20 years, Washington is so much more screwed up than Madison, Wisconsin, you can't believe it.

As we look at this bill, what is it about? It is saying that you have got to pay overtime to somebody who is making more than $47,000 a year. What will that mean? It will mean that employers will say: You had better get out of here; we…

I'd just like to thank the subcommittee chair for holding this hearing. And I hope, at the end, we do something about expediting the disposal of this excess property.

Waste money, waste money, waste money.

I don't understand the purpose of either one of those. I mean, it seems to me, if I have a building and I want to sell it, I don't say, first of all, I've got to call the local city and see if they want it and I've got to call the local…