Isn't it accurate that we have balanced the budget I think since World War II five times?
I have been concerned for a long time about this issue of whether or not we inadvertently and in some cases maybe purpos...
So if all we do in this committee is $1.2 trillion, we, in effect, are not reducing the deficit below the current levels...
I think we have got to understand the relationship between those choices, that the actual tax expenditure itself post-19...
Didn't we contribute to them relatively substantially when we passed the preferential treatment on capital gains and div...
So in terms of the duty that Co-Chair Hensarling has talked about to provide language to significantly reduce, the most ...
You know, we have 50 million, roughly, people who don't have health-care insurance.
Is it not correct that without the policies of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that GDP would be lower and un...
But you can analyze--I mean, you have told us that if we fail to come up with anything that deals with the unsustainabil...
So isn't it fair to say that, in fact, there is an aspect about our budget today that is starkly different?
There is a big distinction, is there not, almost obvious, Dr.
Could you share with the committee whether we can strike the right balance and have a system that is globally competitiv...
Is it possible, in your judgment, to structure a system that lowers the rates, broadens that base, and improves progress...
80 percent of all of the money the Federal Government raises in taxes, 80 percent of it goes out right back into tax exp...
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 ...
We have got to have real structural reform in health care.
I hope we are not being a prisoner of the clock where if any member asks a question--I am here to learn.
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...
