This bill presents us with a simple question: “It is possible – just possible – that from time to time Congress has passed a spending bill or two that ought to have had greater scrutiny?”   Text.

A family that excludes from its budget the mortgage payments it knows it must make is deluding itself and sabotaging its own finances...Text.

Today I have introduced a bill to name the United States Post Office in Granite Bay, California in honor of United States Marine Corps Private First Class Victor Dew.  This young man was only 20 years old when he left his family and friends in late September of 2010 for Helmand Province, Afghanistan.  Text.

Long ago, Jefferson warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”  The exceptions to that rule have been few and far between recently, and ought to be celebrated when they occur.  Text.

In all this debate, I fear both parties have missed a critical point.  Both versions of this bill impose a permanent new tax on every mortgage backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Text.

The House added $167 billion more to this year’s already crushing deficit, mostly to pay for the payroll tax cut, purporting to repay one year’s tax relief over the next ten years...  text.

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I rise in opposition to Section 1021 of the underlying Conference Report (H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act)...  Text.

Topping the list of unfinished business this year is the impending collision of two closely related crises: the expiration of the payroll tax cut and the acceleration of Social Security’s bankruptcy.  Text.
 

In the Sierra Foothills in northeastern California lies the little town of Colfax, population 1,800, with a median household income of about $35,000.  Over the past several years, this little town has been utterly plundered by regulatory and litigatory excesses that have pushed the town to the edge of bankruptcy Text

"The International Monetary Fund estimated that as of Halloween night, the debt of this nation surpassed its entire economy for the first time since World War II."  House Chamber remarks, November 2, 2011.  Text of remarks.