Ron Johnson

I mean, if you were watching this 100 percent of the time, if you were putting in the right type of order, you could make sure that you were going to have an executed trade, just about, I mean, couldn't you?

I think that might have very harmful unintended consequences versus letting the free market competitive system drive transparency, drive competition.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to thank you for holding this hearing.

Where does the Treasury get the money to redeem the bonds from the trust fund?

So what does the Treasury do? They float additional Government bonds or they have to increase taxes, correct?

Where does the Treasury get the money to redeem the bonds?

Don't you think that program requires far more than just modest reforms?

Where does the Treasury get the money to pay that?

It was actually Tom Coburn and Barack Obama who introduced that legislation.

The DATA Act is all about that. It is about measuring things accurately and uniformly across government.

What I have heard from OMB since the DATA Act passed the Senate and the House about a month ago has not been encouraging.

You have to drive that.

I think a lot of that is Dodd-Frank, probably about half of it.

Let us talk about allocation of capital and government investing, because I hear this word 'investing' all the time, and generally, it means spending.

As a candidate, President Obama did say that because of his cap and trade proposal, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

We have not even achieved half the average growth of post-World War II recoveries.

I appreciate you spending the time to meet in my office and I appreciate your willingness to serve.

The point I am making is we have spent about $26 billion on green energy jobs, created about 2,300 jobs at a cost of about $11.5 million per job.

But, in general, if government regulations or policy drives up the cost of energy, that is not good for economic growth, is it?

I fully support moving forward with the bill as soon as possible.

But, in order for this solution to become law, we need our colleagues in the House to act.

Nearly one year ago, the Senate passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform measure that addresses many of the root causes of undocumented immigration.

I would urge and invite all of our colleagues in this Committee to join us for this roundtable.

We cannot stop there. It is critical that we understand and address the root causes of why all these people are willing to literally risk everything.

Don't you think competition would actually do a far better job than having the heavy hand of Government try and guarantee that?