Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling
Thomas Jeb Hensarling, known as Jeb Hensarling, is an American politician who has served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 5th congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Hensarling currently chairs the House Financial Services Committee, and has previously served as the chairman of the House Republican Conference from 2011 to 2013. He has endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 May 1957
CountryUnited States of America
Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'
I do not want America to default on its debt.
I think our seniors have gone 220 years without a prescription drug benefit, ... I don't think they will begrudge us having them wait one more year.
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know something is going to happen, ... These are natural disasters, but they shouldn't be unanticipated.
I don't quite understand how someone would want to close down an airport for purposes of saving jobs,
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.
In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.