Jacob J. Lew: “To get to balance will require a set of decisions that are beyond what anyone is discussing right now.”

The decision has never been made by the only people who can make the decision--that is the President of the United States on the advice of the Treasury Secretary--what to do.

If we do not have the resources to hire the enforcement officers that we need, the tax gap will only grow.

We inherited what was an economy and a budget that was in complete meltdown.

If you have a house on a block with blighted housing on it, if you do not remove the blighted housing, your chances of staying above water are really tough.