we have not done a thing about the debt itself.
the passage of the budget agreement was miraculous because it did show that we could, in fact, do things.
Failing to support infrastructure is debt.
I hope you will convey that sentiment to the White House, please.
we will never get out of this hole, and I think we are facing a time bomb of interest rates.
On the other hand, we cannot ignore this. I mean, the debt, just the interest on the debt, if we have a 1-percent increa...
So a long-term strategy, not a short-term emergency strategy, is what we really need to be looking at.
If interest rates went back to 6 percent on the national debt, just the interest on the debt would be $1.02 trillion.
I think the lesson to me of the last few years is it is politically very hard to do grand bargains, but if we keep chipp...
If two-thirds of the American economy is driven by consumer spending and the income is going to the top 1 percent...
I would invite my colleagues on the other side to talk about a tax reform package where the revenues were dedicated stri...
I believe that in the long run probably the most lasting and important effect of the Affordable Care Act will be the ver...
I certainly appreciate your testimony and would commend to you three gentlemen to think about is there some mechanics wh...
I would urge you to think about that, because it is one thing to owe $17 trillion, the question is what do you owe it fo...
We have to bring some balance to our political system. If people lose faith in this system, which they are rapidly doing...
I think we are insulting the Byzantines, frankly, by likening this to their conduct.
I agree very much with Justice Hugo Black who famously said, with regard to the First Amendment, the words Congress shal...
That is not what America is all about.
