If we are serious about lowering the deficit and the debt, the best way to do that is not by developing an austerity program which increases suffering for those already hurting.

The IRS has estimated that each and every year about $350 billion in taxes go uncollected.

You think we should have zero corporate taxes in America?

Clearly, every branch of Government can and must be more efficient and effective.

But bottom line is spending money on enforcement will bring in a lot more money than we are spending--

Does that concern you, that the collective amount coming into the Federal Government from corporations, in general, have declined precipitously?

At a time when the U.S. spends more on the Pentagon than the next nine countries combined, and when over half of our discretionary spending goes to the Pentagon, we have got to pay close attention to this issue.

Real unemployment is not 5.5 percent, it is 11 percent.

For most Americans, the economic reality of today is pretty clear.

we are going to hear from witnesses who suggest that in the midst of this massive income and wealth inequality, that we cut programs that the elderly, the children, the sick, the poor, and working families desperately depend upon

I thank you for your advice, but that is advice that this Senator will not accept.

Despite the modest gains of the Affordable Care Act, 40 million Americans continue to have no health insurance.

The typical female worker is making $1,300 less than she did in 2007.

that is exactly what the Republican budget will be doing, taking from the working people and the poor and giving to the wealthy and large corporations

the wealthiest family in this country--one family--owns more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of the American people

the top one percent earns more income than the bottom 50 percent

Nobody is getting rich off of disability benefits.

The simple truth is that the rich are becoming much richer while the middle class continues a 40-year decline.