We cannot allow that to happen.
Congress has failed to balance our budgets and stop our rapidly-climbing debt, a $1.4 trillion deficit last year, over $12 trillion in terms...
We have an extraordinarily inefficient system that is hemorrhaging revenue to offshore tax havens.
I think revenue has to be on the table.
Unfortunately, for my entire time in the Senate, we have not been able to address this crisis.
I think you also have to have revenue on the table.
I think if any structure that is put in place that does not assure an up or down vote on the recommendations is highly unlikely to succeed.
As a practical matter, I find it hard to believe that we could get to the end of this process without a President being engaged and a Presid...
Thank you for your strong leadership on this issue.
The American people have to believe that whatever is proposed is absolutely bipartisan and fair.
I think this is a different time and a different circumstance.
The problem that we confront is where we are headed. Where we are headed is towards unsustainable debt.
there will be no long-term extension of the debt without this being included.
They want everything on the table.
Senator Collins, there is a third commission approach that has been proposed by our colleagues.
It'll make all drug supplies safer, in my judgment, if we pass this legislation.
It's a completely bogus argument that there is a safety issue.
It is a completely bogus argument that there is a safety issue. The Europeans have been doing this for 20 years, country to country. It is c...
