U.S. State Attorneys General

It appears to be a document that was prepared without the committee staff's full participation.

If you are going to get to forgo having to pay those taxes that an otherwise established enterprise has to pay, we should make sure that the public is getting some benefit for it.

Because as we have served on this subcommittee in the past, that has been one issue I have raised quite often, with regard to the non-profit, charitable world, is are they, in fact, providing a service, a public good, that pays for the…

I also want to make sure I emphasize again something else you said, because there is a need to dispel this rumor, this myth floating out there, that the money that IRS needs to try to implement this new patient's bill of rights is somehow…

The budget bill that was passed by this House, H.R. 1, by the Republican majority a few weeks back, would cut $600 million out of your budget, which you said would cost us in revenues, because of lower tax collections--proper and…

There was no direction in the budget bill that cuts the $600 million as to how you could do it in a way that would not undermine services.

The more we do private sector investment, the more we see productivity increases for our workers, the better things will be.

I hope everyone will agree that we should have those who really partied during the first decade of the 21st century and made the deficits that we have today pay for their sins.

One quick way, simply by removing the tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent of American earners, the wealthiest 1 percent.

So to now hear that some people believe we have to cut benefits for Social Security for our seniors who are receiving Social Security in order to balance the budget, we have to wonder what is going on?

The greatest contributor, in fact, to today's deficits are the fact that the Bush tax cuts, which went mostly to very wealthy people, drained the Treasury of a great deal of money.

I believe that most Americans would agree that the biggest deficit we face in this country is a jobs deficit.

What we do with the budget tells Americans what we think about America and how we believe we should move forward as a country together.

I think, as I mentioned, the hundreds of our local leaders who have converged in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, and they visited all of their Members of Congress, bipartisan, they were to a person supportive of these kinds of grants.

I urge the Committee to authorize robust funding for programs that have proven to be successful in strengthening our local communities.

Helping our children thrive is an investment in our future.

Crafting the congressional budget resolution is a statement of our national priorities.

I urge the committee to authorize robust funding for programs that have proven to be successful in strengthening our local communities and creating greater opportunities for all of our citizens.

CDBG funds have supported economic development, job creation, and facility needs for the most disadvantaged in Hawaii.

Continuing to adequately fund the programs that mean the most to these communities is vitally important to our long-term success.

Crafting the Congressional Budget Resolution is a statement of our national priorities, and I appreciate the opportunity to offer my views on what those priorities should be.

Arbitrarily cutting our Federal spending back to fiscal year 2008 levels... is in my view a meat-ae approach to fiscal discipline.

The law provides the opportunity to change the face of our health care system to better support the vitality and strength of our families, businesses, and communities . . . to expand wellness and prevention . . . to reduce hospital…

Maryland intends to seize the moment and use the tools provided by the Affordable Care Act to build a better future for our State.