Opening Statement
What you are talking about, Mr. Chairman, is effectiveness and efficiency.
I certainly commend you on your bipartisan approach to developing the legislation we are considering today.
we are performing medicine like we're in a third-world country because of the shortages.
He recommitted to making sure that we do those things that we are talking about so that we could be more effective and e...
this is serious stuff.
I don't want to look back with regret that I failed to do the things that I could have done to help my constituents.
we asked higher income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.
it is spending through the Tax Code by saying to certain interest, sometimes based on policies we agree, there is consen...
I have never understood the logic as to how cuts to defense... somehow do not cost jobs.
we passed the $600 billion tax increase focused on folks at the very high end of the income scale, but as the President ...
It would be absolutely counterproductive in terms of the long-term competitiveness, let alone the health of our people, ...
We have to act. That is why I said it from the very beginning.
I think that we have to legislate for all of America.
Arbitrarily, trying to squeeze all of that into the 10-year window, which apparently was what the Speaker had agreed to ...
I would also point out that Speaker Boehner, during those discussions with the President, said he didn't want to increas...
Unemployment would soar. It would set back progress on the economy.
