I hope is not waiting around for the health care bill, which has a lot of important building blocks in it, to pass.
If we don't have a plan that all of us basically think has got merit, it will be abandoned.
I think we do have an extraordinary challenge, and the question for all of us: Are we up to this challenge?
I think we have to be very careful not to prematurely reduce the deficit because, in many ways, we are facing what the J...
We hope to support the efforts of an official commission, whether statutory or created by Executive order.
the debt has to be controlled, you are absolutely right.
The recommendations of that commission will be brought to a vote in the Senate and in the House.
I believe that job creation is primarily a function of the private sector, but we can do things to provide incentives to...
Clearly, the Federal budget is on an unsustainable path, and while nobody can predict at exactly what point excessive de...
I give the administration high marks for what you have done thus far to avert what I believe would have been a global fi...
In the short term, we have got to strengthen this recovery.
Senator Gregg and I, who joined together after 2 years of working together on a proposal, were delighted to get 53 votes...
We have got the lowest revenue as a share of the economy in 60 years, the highest spending as a share of GDP in 60 years...
I wish we had been more successful in persuading our colleagues to have a bigger package.
I believe the risk to Medicare and Social Security recipients is a failure to act in a timely way to deal with the long-...
My calculus tells me that me that this year we will hit gross debt to GDP of just over 90 percent.
We are also a major energy State.
If you take on too much debt, it affects the rate of economic growth in a country adversely.
