I just really want to urge you to continue aggressively on the transit funding.
The American people expect fact-based budgeting that produces more energy, not locking it up.
Just because you call something an investment does not make it so, certainly not a good investment.
Transit saves us highways and highway maintenance dollars and allows us to have a way that we can bring our communities ...
I want to thank you for your support and the President's support of an idea I put out last year to take up to $7,500 tax...
The actions of this administration are making things worse.
Right now we are in the midst of a growing fiscal crisis, and it is crucially important that we have an honest conversat...
The plain fact is the budget doubles our gross national debt, never once produces an annual deficit of less than $600 bi...
I do not understand why a measure of success is comparing one third grade to another third grade.
Spending as a share of our national income is the highest it has been in 60 years.
we do not just have a spending problem, although we do have a spending problem, we also have a revenue problem.
We are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that we spend.
Let's get real. Yes, we have to do spending and yes, we have to do revenue.
I do not see any way around, and the question is timing.
I am serious about cutting spending and I voted to do it on the Commission.
All of us--all of us--have to be in on the solution.
I think it has been inappropriate for the administration to raise the specter of a default on our debt.
Revenue as a share of our national income is the lowest it has been in 60 years.
