And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.

Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.

To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.

Given a choice between President Trump with more freedom for Americans and ObamaCare with more government, I chose to stand with President Trump and freedom.

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

Our Savior's birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don't expect them.

Urgency creates decision making.

Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people.

This bill, the Sound Dollar Act, is all about looking forward about the role the Fed should play.

Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Here's my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let's not tweak what we have and call it a day.

Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.

The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and stabilizing the economy and the financial sector during the crisis. But then they tried to do too much with quantitative easing that went on forever, just dramatically exploding their balance sheets.

Under Obamacare - which placed 159 federal agencies, commissions, and bureaucracies between patients and doctors - patients not only face dramatically higher health care costs, they've also lost the power to choose the options right for them.

If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.

At the end of the day, Republican-driven tax reform is not only going to be good for the economy and for growth. It's going to be good for middle-class Americans.

I want to give consumers way more choices in health care. Choice and competition always drive down costs better than central control.

The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.

I've always intuitively liked the consumption-tax model.

When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.

Tax reform is the legislative challenge of a generation for America. It hasn't been accomplished since 1986, when President Reagan and Congress delivered the most sweeping overhaul of our nation's tax code in American history. 2017 is the year to change that and make history of our own.

We want to deliver tax relief all across the country, no matter where you live.

No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.

Americans need health care focused on them, not Washington. They want choices, not more mandates. They want affordable plans with ready access to local doctors and hospitals - not high-priced plans with doctors they don't know.

Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.

My friends and family know I love playing baseball - Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

One of America's best investments in peace and security is our special relationship with Israel.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

A stronger global hub at Bush means a stronger economic future for Houston.

American jobs are being lost to foreign countries, and U.S. companies are urged to move their manufacturing plants, new technologies and headquarters overseas.

Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.

One of the most offensive actions by the IRS is its continued unlawful seizures of money and assets of innocent Americans, called civil asset forfeiture.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that includes both a stronger economy to generate new tax revenues and bipartisan guardrails, which will help ensure that future presidents and congresses spend within our means.

We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.

One of my most rewarding congressional duties is nominating future military leaders to study at America's service academies. The exceptional young men and women who receive these coveted nominations earn a top-of-the-line education and the opportunity to serve their country as a military officer.

I think it's important, especially in health care, to take this step by step, whether it's the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, how we make Medicaid work better, how we save Medicare for the long term.

I'm absolutely confident - in fact, I'm optimistic that by focusing on quality and innovation in Medicare - that we can save that program for the long term in a very positive way.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.