I understand the position of the religious community on this issue.
The pill has a profound impact on their well-being, far more than any man in this room can possibly know.
Mr. Chairman, if I could just take 5 seconds, as part of it, I think we should remember that some the adjustments he mad...
Closing the door on that slush fund, I believe, will achieve real savings as we move into the out years.
I do not believe that the way to reform government is to attack millions of hard working middle class workers.
The Simpson-Bowles commission, the bipartisan commission, set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their 10 year window.
This is not about the politics of envy or class warfare, this about how do we solve a deficit problem in a way that asks...
I dare say that Republicans and Democrats alike agree that the sequester is not the best way to achieve that deficit red...
I think what the president has proposed is that we want to achieve a net of $1.5 trillion in additional revenue, and doi...
the question is not whether to reduce the deficits, the question has been how do we reduce the deficit
We should not try to solve our budget problems on the backs of middle class Federal workers while we refuse to ask the w...
this is a responsible budget that begins to turn the corner in terms of the deficits and is very important in terms of j...
I think what we see here in the president's budget is a responsible approach
I think after your testimony in the Senate yesterday that you are already battle-tested.
that balance is what our Republican colleagues have objected to
This isn't just my opinion and that of these bipartisan groups--economists like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ha...
Ninety-eight percent of our Republican colleagues have signed a pledge saying they won't close one special interest tax ...
It seems perfectly reasonable, and I think an ordinary American watching this proceeding would agree that you should be ...