I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. No, they want us to focus on their job security.
I've proposed that we close tax loopholes that reward companies for shipping American jobs overseas and instead give companies greater incen...
I've proposed a new jobs tax credit for small business.
I want us to have a constructive debate. The only thing I don't want -- and here I am listening to the American people and I think they don'...
I don't think a system is working when small businesses are gouged and 15,000 Americans are losing coverage every single day.
Actually I've gotten many of your ideas. I've taken a look at them, even before I was handed this. Some of the ideas we have embraced and ar...
If you say we can offer coverage for all Americans and it won't cost a penny, that's just not true.
If there's uniform opposition because the Republican caucus doesn't get 100 percent or 80 percent of what you want then it's going to be har...
We have to be careful about what we say about each other sometimes. Because it boxes us in, in ways that makes it difficult for us to work t...
The fact of the matter is that when we came into office the deficit was $1.3 trillion.
The problem is twofold. One is that depending on how it's structured if recipients are suddenly getting a plan that has their reimbursement ...
But if you were to listen to the debate and, frankly, how some of you went after this bill, you'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik p...
The fact of the matter is, is that many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable in your own ba...
So the question is at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability or a serious question about -...
I know there's a question in there somewhere because you're making a whole bunch of assertions, half of which I disagree with.
You may not support our overall jobs package, but if you look at the tax credit that we're proposing for small businesses right now it is co...
It can't be all or nothing, one way or the other.
But if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every as...
