CSPAN2 Capital News Today November 8, 2011
need to use the oversight authority to be able to find out how we can strengthen this program for the tax payers because surely the american people, the taxpayers and congress will demand no less. i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman and now the gentleman from texas for one minute. >> thank you mr. chairman. our nation has just over $14.9 trillion. over 126,700 or american households on average and we are spending -- this is a spending driven debt crisis that has a borrowing approximately 40 cents of every dollar and every time the federal government spends a dollar on its prioriti...