We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.