White House Chiefs of Staff

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.

It's the 2nd of February. We have roughly 10 months between now and the next election. It's plenty of time for the folks across the aisle to let us know what they mean by fairness. Tell us, what does it mean? When you say that we want a…

I claim time in opposition. The CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank my colleague for yielding. As we sit like good Congressmen and -women in our offices and as we watch these debates on television, sometimes we feel compelled to run over and participate in the debate. Certainly, that's what drove…

And that would be to simply send us a budget that balances. In his lifetime would be great; in his children's lifetime would be okay; but send us a budget, Mr. President, that balances at some time. You are at the White House right now…

I thank my colleague, and thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to follow on to what my colleague said in his opening remarks about trying to get your hands around how big $1.2 trillion is. It's one of the things I struggle with. I know it's one…

One of the things Ms. Chu and I in her district, on our subcommittee, one of the things we heard when we were out in California was the lack of information about SBA programs.

I have actually participated in the disaster assistance relief program. I showed up at work about 6 months after I had started my own business one morning to find my office furniture floating in the front yard.

I have enjoyed sitting here listening to the arguments against this amendment. They range from the bizarre to the completely incredible. We've heard it's not 1985. I wish it were and that the deficit were only $5 trillion. Imagine what the…

Last week I came to this floor and stood in the well and called upon the Senate to do something, which was to take up this bill--this bill that had passed out of our subcommittee with tremendous bipartisan support and that passed out of…

But that the work that was done out there that was the subject of today's hearing for 3rd Army was not done under the rules regarding project labor agreements.

I guess it is fair to say that if there was another project over $25 million that began today at Shaw Air Force Base, it would be subject to the review that you have just laid out, and it might fall under the project labor agreement.

Thank you. And my understanding is that project labor agreements have been generally perceived as being favorable to union labor over at-will labor.

I'm Mick Mulvaney, 5th District representative from South Carolina, and the chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce.

Last week, unbeknownst to most people because it doesn't get a lot of coverage, we did something in this House that most people in the Nation didn't think we had the capability of doing. We passed, on a bipartisan basis, a bill that will…

Less than 1 percent of the small businesses nationwide export at all, and 95 percent of the ones that do export to only one country.

This is a bipartisan effort. We are not here with Republican and Democrat.

I give the President tremendous credit for specifically mentioning those things in his jobs bill.

We just had a series of meetings in my district led by the U.S. Chamber specifically encouraging people to export into the Middle East.