White House Chiefs of Staff

Did GM go bankrupt after the auto bailout?

Did Chrysler go bankrupt in April of 2009?

We can't just agree that we are going to have to do something and then not actually do something.

I think that is an advance over where we were probably 2 years ago when one side was saying, let's do something about the deficit, and the other side was saying, let's not worry about the deficit.

We have requirements, Mr. Chairman, that we have to purchase a certain amount now of our energy from renewable resources.

You are here because you have asked us to be here. You have brought this on yourselves.

I will be honest with you. On several levels this hearing has been very difficult for me to sit and watch.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 5 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Flake The Acting CHAIR. It…

I think those are the questions I would really recommend this committee look at.

I thank my friend from New Jersey, for whom I have a great deal of respect, Madam Chairwoman. And what he says is correct. What he says is absolutely and without reservation correct. What this government did during the first half of this…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from South Carolina will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 in the Nature of a Substitute Offered by…

At this time I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise).

The President's budget never goes to surplus. There is no plan offered by the Democrats to actually pay back the money that we are borrowing. It's time to change the word back to what it really means, which is spending less than we take…

All we are asking is that these agencies will publish and give folks the terms and conditions under which they want to consider insourcing.

This amendment offered by Congressman Mulvaney will simplify the limitations on subcontracting for small businesses...

The Subcontracting Transparency and Reliability Act, H.R. 3893, addresses a number of small business contracting issues.

The Federal Government that is big enough to give to you all of the social justice that you pursue is also big enough to take from you all of the religious freedoms that you have.

I would encourage each of you to consider the possibility that using a secular Federal Government to help advance religious principles... may in both the short run, as we are learning today, and in the long run be unwise.

I would put it to you that members of your congregations will still be similarly situated, and still be put in the same condition.

So when you go trampling on the Constitution, you get the full regards of the Constitution.

We need to start looking at the full context, not picking and choosing the simple words that we want to utilize to support ourselves.

I think in the long run, if we allow that environment to prevail when it comes to government contracting, what you will see is folks like Ms. Biondo or other organizations simply drop out of the process.

I agree with the lady from Minnesota regarding the undesirability of brinkmanship.