Speeches and Statements

  • House Budget Committee Hearing: The Congressional Budget Office’s Long-Term Budget Outlook
    June 6, 2012 - Welcome all to the House Budget Committee. The purpose of this hearing is to review the Long-Term Budget Outlook, and unpack the fiscal and economic challenges facing our nation. We are joined today by Doug Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office. I want to thank you for testifying to... More
  • House Budget Committee Mark-Up: Reconciliation and Replacing the Sequester
    May 7, 2012 - Welcome to today’s mark-up. Today, this Committee meets to advance sensible spending restraints and to reprioritize savings called for under the Budget Control Act. Last year, as we were coming up on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration asked Congress to rubber-stamp a blank-check increase in ... More
  • Paul Ryan: A budget that trusts the American people
    March 29, 2012 - CLICK TO WATCH Mr. Chairman, we are bearing witness to history this week. Across the street, we are witnessing what could be the end of bureaucrat-controlled health care. What we are on the verge of witnessing is a powerful reaffirmation of the American idea. And we are finally having the debate we... More
  • Committee Mark-Up: The Path to Prosperity – FY2013 Budget Resolution
    March 21, 2012 - Welcome to the mark up for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget resolution. I am proud to be here with my House Budget Committee colleagues today. I am proud of all the hard work you’ve done to produce the budget we’re here to discuss. I also want to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, especi... More
  • Paul Ryan Previews The Path to Prosperity
    March 15, 2012 - Watch House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin preview next week’s release of a budget for the federal government. Click to watch “What if your President, your Senator and your Congressman knew a crisis was coming? What if they knew why it was happening? What if they knew what they nee... More
  • House Budget Committee Hearing: The President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Revenue and Economic Policy Proposals
    February 16, 2012 - Welcome all, to this important hearing. I’d like to thank Secretary Geithner for joining us. This is your second hearing today and your fourth this week. We know that defending this budget is no easy task, so we appreciate your time. Mr. Secretary, it’s pretty well known that one of your favorite sa... More
  • House Budget Committee Hearing on the President’s FY2013 Budget
    February 15, 2012 - Welcome all, to this important hearing. I’d like to thank our witness today, Mr. Zients, for coming to us under difficult circumstances. With the departure of Mr. Lew from OMB just last month, we understand that you are testifying on short notice, and we recognize the difficulty of that. And unfortu... More
  • Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011
    November 30, 2011 - Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce the "Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011" along with my friend and colleague House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. The fiscal and economic challenges facing our nation are immense. In addition to the alarming budge... More
  • “Our Churchillian Moment”
    November 12, 2011 - I feel honored tonight for a special reason. Twenty-one years ago my mentor, the late Jack Kemp, was given the very first of these awards. And he loved receiving it. He loved to quote “Sir Winston,” along with his other political heroes, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. He admired these men be... More
  • The Optimist’s Guide to Repeal and Replace
    September 27, 2011 - Thank you very much for that introduction. It was kind of you to invite me – and not hold it against me that I steal so many ideas from you guys. It’s true. I steal monetary policy ideas from John Taylor, rule-of-law stuff from Richard Epstein… I even tried to steal some wit and humor from Peter Ro... More

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