Bob Wise: “But the big thing I have learned is that we have a debt of almost $5 trillion. And these young people in school and…”

this building offers a great challenge, and that is it is a balance that has to be reached between where the people's elected representatives meet and where the people come to view their elected representatives and their Nation's heritage…

I am going to be the skunk at the picnic because I am not a fan, based upon personal experience, and I guess that is what we bring to the floor a lot. I am not a fan of the National Keeper's office, nor how it is conducted. Let me just…

I am concerned about the hundreds of thousands of rural West Virginians earning $12,000, $15,000 a year, sometimes less than that, and that is why I am voting for a bill, the substitute, that would extend the Medicare program as we already…

I rise to oppose this rule. We hear a lot about there being a surplus but the reality is it is in Social Security. I have the greatest respect and friendship for the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Rules. He is irrepressible…