So if, in fact, we bring down the military action and do not have to spend as much on our soldiers overseas, we can bring some back, that in and of itself would give us some savings that are not in your baseline.

Part of bringing the budget into balance is that we are going to have to make those types of sacrifices.

I agree with the comments of our Chairman and Senator Crapo that we need a credible plan, we need a credible plan now.

In order to have successful efforts for increasing capacity of other countries, there needs to be a priority on gender equality.

Secretary Gates shares the importance and the attention that is needed for gender equality.

I think it was terribly irresponsible for the Senate to take up that resolution.

The argument I hear the most against consumption taxes is progressivity, but we can make a consumption tax progressive, and we have ways of doing it.

I think you have the right formula, and each element will be controversial.

Section 2: ``The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.''

you wrote to the Speaker of the House on January 6th of this year indicating that your assessment would be that that would add $230 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years

Reclaiming my time, I think my friend knows they did that as part of a whole tax reform package that closed the tax loopholes that your proposal would open.

Mr. Speaker, the American people did not bargain for a plan in the first 24 hours of the new Congress that would blow a hole in the deficit and expand the debt. The chairman of the Rules Committee mentioned the recent bipartisan tax…

Mr. Speaker, on this opening day of the new Congress I know that we all hope to work together to tackle the major problems that face our country. We heard that sentiment expressed by the outgoing Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and by the incoming…

I thank the chairman of the Rules Committee for yielding. I tell my friend, you and I have been here some period of time.

Well, that's true, so I'll be very respectful. I've heard that argument that you just made made in 1981, in 1989, and again in 2001. I tell my friend, my experience has been that it hasn't worked, and we have incurred substantial trillions…

I thank the gentlelady. I was telling my friend, the chairman of the Rules Committee, congratulations to him for his obtaining the chairmanship. A thoughtful and hardworking Member of this House will chair the Rules Committee. I am going…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this rule not for small reasons of this rule or that rule but because it authorizes trillions of dollars of new debt without paying for it. There are two ways to create debt: You can buy things and not…

Mr. President, I thank my colleagues for their very warm words. Today, when I walked down the aisle, escorted by my esteemed partner, Ben Cardin, my former and beloved colleague, Senator Paul Sarbanes--when I walked down that aisle, I…