Your own budget projects--OMB's numbers project that we would be spending--we spent last year $221 billion on interest, ...
I think we could have done that in a better way, but I do believe that you tried to do the right thing and you passed a ...
Well, when the President leaves office, he will have doubled the amount of debt of the United States of America, and he ...
The answer is that you are going to spend--you are asking us to raise the spending limits by changing the Ryan-Murray la...
As Charles Krauthammer said such a characterization is 'an assault on the dictionary.'
CBO Director Elmendorf recently testified before this Committee to share an alarming diagnosis. He declared our current ...
If we produce more American energy and imported less, would that help growth in America?
And if we brought our deficits under control, would that create more confidence and more growth in the future?
we are not going to be able to fix that and address it effectively if the President of the United States will not look t...
we simply have to get our fiscal house in order.
If we could identify regulations that were unnecessary and eliminate those, would that allow more growth to occur?
I think we have to talk about that, and you note that the big programs are the ones that are drawing a larger percentage...
So I hope our distinguished Chair will join me in opposing any plan from the President that would spend more than we agr...
The recovery from the 2009 recession seemed to be solid at first, but it has not come close to meeting the projections o...
Growth is critical to America's progress. We all understand that. We know that is the big issue.
I do not think we can say our economy is where we want it to be. It has some very serious problems.
Since 2009, the United States has borrowed $8 trillion and added $8 trillion in new debt.
But 988,000 dropped out of the labor market, and we have got fewer people working today than there were in 2007.