we hope we can have an opportunity to have an up-or-down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we have put forward.
the result of that legislation was to make sure that we did not see a sharp increase in taxes on middle-income Americans...
We hope we can have an opportunity to have an up or down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we've put forward.
we are talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs lost this year if we don't replace the sequester.
I want to join the chairman in welcoming Dr. Elmendorf, and thank you and your team at the Congressional Budget Office f...
We should be working overtime to prevent that kind of job loss.
I actually think we should have phased that out rather than having gone cold turkey, but the point is, a big chunk of th...
if we agree, Mr. Chairman, that those are just different forms of spending in the Tax Code, it seems to me we should be ...
Seven hundred and fifty thousand jobs between now at the end of this fiscal calendar year 2013, right?
You have created a nemesis. You have created a situation where folks, you want folks to think that you want to protect t...
The American people didn't buy that in the last election. They just simply did not buy it.
We asked higher-income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.
We should get rid of some of those [tax breaks], and we should get rid of some of those for the purpose of deficit reduc...
You have got the job loss, 750,000 jobs between now and the end of the month.
Instead of a trickle-down economics, which you had for 8 years--...we got a trickle up. I prefer trickle up.
I just want to make that clear to our colleagues.
The government pays $1.3 billion, $1.3 billion each year to 15 insurance companies.
The government pays $1.3 billion each year to 15 insurance companies.
