Even Dick Armey, as the Majority Leader, stated as he offered his sales tax proposal at the time, which is a bit different than what we are ...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
And it's clear now that we have not just a financial crisis that's building up in this country but a political crisis.
The compromise has to be good enough in effect to get enough of those caucus members and Democrats to pass it in order to get a solution.
Neither of these plans does that.
Neither of these plans as presented takes on entitlement reform.
It's clear now that we have not just a financial crisis that's building up in this country but a political crisis.
NSTIC was announced in April of this year at an event that I had the pleasure of joining Senator Mikulski with.
The notion that--actually, Mr. DeLay was calling the shots then. You know, I wanted to deal with this.
We need to get this done.
Every expert in the country will tell us that we have a $2.2 trillion infrastructure deficit in America.
one thing I want to emphasize--and I didn't do it in my opening and I think it's really important--is that Senator Hutchison and myself, Sen...
the establishment of a national infrastructure bank is a means to develop innovative financing and to aid the delivery of infrastructure pro...
advocating for this kind of financing does not mean wanting to sell off America's public infrastructure to private investors.
I am a big believer in pilot projects as well.
Without those talks, without parallel political as well as security talks, the chances of ending the hostilities are, frankly, slim.
These abuses must end, there must be an investigation, and perpetrators held accountable.
If atrocities are occurring, they must stop and there must be accountability.
