White House Chiefs of Staff

There is a tremendous untapped market for us in small business.

Exports is something else that everybody here has mentioned off and on.

While the path to success is not always easy, it remains achievable to all who are willing to put in the hard work to build a business.

One of the founding principles that allows our country to be successful is the spirit of entrepreneurship.

As a member of Congress from a very, very rural, small area in South Carolina who has only, I think, been to California twice in my life for a combined 15 hours, this has been a really neat experience to be here in this wonderful town that…

We just spent several weeks back in our own districts, and I had a chance to talk to a lot of folks--and a lot of my Democrat friends. I do have some of those. They're always asking me, Why can't you just agree with the President? Why…

We will adjourn now until 11 o'clock, although I will tell you Ms. Chu and I will come back as quickly as we can to try and move through.

It was nice to welcome the two new members of Congress.

``The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today on to the backs of our…

I can't tell you how much I long for a discussion of ideas, an honest and open discussion of real ideas in this Chamber as opposed to talking points. Clearly, we're not going to be getting that here this evening. What we've heard so far is…

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. 71 Offered by Ms. Bass of California

Just for clarification, the amendment only makes the change to the base spending. It does not change anything in title 9. It does not change overseas contingencies in any way. It is simply the base portion of the DOD budget. Thank you for…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. By way of brief summary, this amendment would freeze the base Department of Defense funding at 2011 levels. It is roughly a $17 billion reduction, or a 3 percent reduction over the bill that's currently before us…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The total amount of appropriations made…

I think it's important to realize in this discussion that this is not just an attack on one company, nor is just an attack more broadly at some of the principles that we hold to be so dear. This is a specific attack on the people of South…

My question to you, Mr. Gowdy, and to you, Mr. Speaker, would be this: Why would there even be a strategy? What is this talk of strategy that the NLRB is charged with enforcing the law? There should be no strategy involved with that…

I thank my colleague, Mr. Gowdy. His words are well considered and well made and I think bear out the decision of the people of his district to send him to Washington. This is perhaps the first real challenge we have faced together as a…

Political activity is not a selection factor.

I would like to start by thanking my own chairman, Mr. Ryan, and also the ranking member, Mr. Van Hollen, for the entire process. It has been my first year. I have enjoyed it. We've had some spirited debates. I know that we have disagreed…

To the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Chairman, I would say that it's not easy to do. Why are we here? We're here for a single purpose: we take what the Republican Committee has done and simply lay out for the American people how hard it…

I thank Mr. Rokita for the time. I want to applaud my colleagues in the Progressive Caucus for doing something which I think is intellectually honest. In fact, I think if you look at a couple of budgets that we're going to be looking at…

And I put it to you, Madam Chairwoman, that that's what this debate is really about. That's what this debate is really about. Are we going to maintain the American system, or are we trying to move towards a European system? And I will tell…

When I travel my district, I have tried to figure out a way to explain to people, and to myself, how to make sense out of these trillions of dollars. And I do it this way. I put it in numbers that I can understand. I tell folks to assume…

Woman, I wanted to speak very briefly to a topic that was raised earlier tonight by my colleague, Mr. Ellison from Minnesota. It is a comment, a message that has been repeated several times tonight and was, in fact, repeated several times…