Didn't we contribute to them relatively substantially when we passed the preferential treatment on capital gains and dividends?
Is it possible, in your judgment, to structure a system that lowers the rates, broadens that base, and improves progressivity and creates gr...
But you can analyze--I mean, you have told us that if we fail to come up with anything that deals with the unsustainability, we are sending ...
Is it not correct that without the policies of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that GDP would be lower and unemployment would be ...
So in terms of the duty that Co-Chair Hensarling has talked about to provide language to significantly reduce, the most important message to...
this is the most predictable economic crisis in history that we are looking at coming at us
I believe all people ought to have health care, but I don't think anybody should get, on the government's checkbook or the taxpayers' checkb...
It is possible to put revenue on the table to the tune of $1 trillion-plus, whatever, with tax reform, is it not? You do not have to raise t...
I had the pleasure of voting to get rid of the 70 percent and come down to--I think originally we chose two rates, as I recall it was 28 and...
I think that--are those worthy goals that we ought to be pursuing?
I happen to agree with that judgment that you have made, and I think it is a very important one with respect to how we approach this.
Isn't it accurate that we have balanced the budget I think since World War II five times?
So what do we attribute that significant reduction in the Medicare cost growth rate?
We all agree that we are facing an unsustainable financial future, and under the CBO's alternative fiscal scenario, the debt is going to rea...
Most people have accepted that we don't want to have major reductions to--we have reforms, yes.
Any real solution needs to be balanced with a mix of revenues and spending cuts and long-term reforms.
So isn't it fair to say that, in fact, there is an aspect about our budget today that is starkly different?
So that has had a beneficial effect in terms of restraining growth in Medicare--in Medicare cost?
