These people have been born. They are alive today. They are going to be eligible for Social Security and Medicare.
I served on Simpson-Bowles. In many ways I think your work product is actually somewhat superior to ours.
I think you have it about right with respect to the revenue side of the equation. I think you are headed in the right direction on entitleme...
Can I just say in conclusion, Mr. Chairman, to me one of the biggest challenges we confront in Medicare reform is dealing with this risk of ...
Any prudent person, I think, would say, we are going to have to make some changes.
When you are borrowing $0.40 of every $1, that cannot continue much longer.
I will tell you, it is extremely impressive. It is being carefully done.
Since 2005, we have gone down from 60-percent dependent to 45-percent dependent last year.
One thing I learned about Senator Nickles is his word is absolutely gold.
I personally believe we are going to have to reduce tax expenditures, broaden the base.
We need to lower the corporate rate to be more competitive.
We have provisions right now that encourage us to invest, and we need to invest heavily in the Bakken.
It is incredibly important to the economics of the country that we make further progress.
If corporations were so powerful they would have cut the corporate tax rate and they would have done all other kinds of things to benefit th...
I estimate that business subsidies are about $100 billion a year. That is a small part of the total budget, but it is a good place to start ...
Yes. Absolutely. I mean, again, we are always going to have lobbying, and that is always going to be a problem.
The Federal Government should have some basic functions that we all agree with, and we ought to leave a lot of stuff like infrastructure and...
I am for closing tax loopholes. I am for closing--I am for getting rid of special deals on the tariff side.
