Paul Ryan

What he failed to point out is those drugs and those prices that he would be importing or adopting the prices out here are set by government price controls, not the free market.

There are three things we are trying to accomplish with Medicare reform which we accomplish in this bill: make Medicare fair for seniors across all of America in all States like my State of Wisconsin; modernize Medicare so that it is once…

What we are hearing tonight are two different philosophies, two different emotions. Over here on this side of the aisle, we are hearing the emotions of fear, envy, and hate. Over here we are hearing the emotions of hope, growth, and…

I want to introduce another point to this topic of debate, and that is, if we take a look at the fleet consistency of the different car manufacturers, the Big Three American auto manufacturers sell more SUVs and trucks than light cars…

I agree with the idea and the need to modify the revapor pressure levels. I do not think that in any way hurts the spirit or intent of this amendment. The intent of this amendment is to first have States go to the preferred fuel and then…

6.8 and 7.8, those are from the EPA study conducted last year which recommended a three-fuel menu, 9.0 RVP, which is what we call conventional gas; 7.8 RVP, which is sort of a midlevel clean-burning gas that 20 percent of the country uses…

No, it still keeps the SIP process, the State Implementation Plan process. It simply says, we want you to go look at these blends. We prefer these blends. You can satisfy your SIP process with these blends, and if you cannot use these…

We are here to talk about tax reform. We are here to talk about, can we have a better way of raising revenue for the government without doing so much harm and damage to our economy, to the daily lives of individuals and to the businesses…

on Saturday, our nation was unified in sorrow, as we suffered the shocking loss of seven courageous individuals aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Among the astronauts who gave their lives in service to our country and in pursuit of…

September 11, 2001, brought to light a horror that the American people and the world had up until then only seen in movies. On that day, we learned, as a nation, what it means to be terrorized. The nineteen men who hijacked airliners and…

This is a regime that will gouge out the eyes of children to force confessions from their parents and grandparents. This a regime that will crush all of the bones in the feet of a 2-year-old girl to force her mother to divulge her father's…

I would like to put one thing straight. The AARP does not oppose this bill. But for the benefit of Members who are truly listening to this debate and trying to make up their minds, let me point out three distinct differences. The…

I wanted to follow up on what my colleague, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Foley), was talking about, and that is this week we here in Congress are considering a prescription drug benefit. But we are doing much more than that; we are…

Mr. Speaker, the real economy is growing quite well right now. New housing starts are doing really well. Manufacturing is getting back on its feet. The real economy is growing except for the equity markets. Our stock market is very shaky…

I just want to clarify two errors from the last speaker. First of all, in 8 years we are not talking about cutting taxes. In 8 years we are talking about keeping them constant and not raising taxes. The $4 trillion figure that has been…

I just wanted to quickly respond to the last speaker about tax cuts being the source of the loss of the surplus this past year. That is simply not the case. Seventy-three percent of the loss of the surplus this past year came because our…

I have long known about the gentleman from Illinois' work on repealing the marriage penalty. He is the reason the marriage penalty is repealed in this legislation. He deserves the credit for that. And the gentleman from Missouri (Mr…

I want to point out also the score the gentleman mentioned, the revenue cost that is assumed by the Congressional Budget Office. What is interesting about that score is not so much that it is $374 billion out of a surplus of $2.3 trillion…

I appreciate that comment. That is what is so crazy about this arcane rule in the other body that was forced into this legislation that sunset this tax cut in the year 2011. If this legislation that we are now proposing does not pass, on…

Under the Bush tax cut, over 3 million families are being taken off the Federal income tax roles and would be put back on, they would have new taxes reimposed back on them, if this tax bill is not made permanent?

Mr. Speaker, this debate today has been rather unfortunate. We have heard a lot of emotions, a lot of fear, a lot of envy. What we are trying to accomplish is simply this: let us take stock in what our Nation is facing right now. We are in…

let us put all the theatrics aside. We are at war, we have a national emergency and homeland security on our hands, and we are in a recession. So speaker after speaker is coming down to the well playing partisan politics. Let us talk about…

I think the gentleman hit the nail on the head. That is, if we thought more government spending was the answer to our economic ills, we would not be in a recession. We have the most spending we have had in the history of the Federal…

Absolutely. When we take a look at the family farmer, who purchased an asset, or maybe inherited the family farm in their early years, went on to sell it later on, they are going to face a capital gains tax in excess of 20 percent…

the oldest trick in Washington is that if you disagree with somebody, impugn their motives, do not attack their policies. That is what we hear on the floor today. Motives are being impugned. All of this talk about giving corporate…