Certainly, we took an important first step by passing, I think, the new health reform law, which will reduce the deficit.
I intend to push for a wide range of additional spending cuts, including eliminating expensive Cold War-era weapons systems.
Bad morals, too.
Thank you, Senator Harkin, helped us to secure.
We know that, in the years immediately ahead, we must take aggressive, painful, and unpopular steps to bring the deficit under control--both...
For a program like Head Start, that would mean cutting services to 120,000 kids across the country.
The President has proposed cutting CSBG funding by 50 percent. This will dramatically impact our most vulnerable families.
That is why this is just so vitally important on these Pell grants to make sure that we continue those.
That statement is absolutely false, and you admitted as much last night, that you knew by April 2010 that ATF walked guns in Operation Wide ...
I regret that in April of 2010 that I did not draw the connection between Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious.
On February 4, 2011, the Department sent me a letter also assuring me that allegations of gun walking were untrue.
Wages have been stagnant for about 20 years, and people are working longer and harder than ever before.
that's why I've always been such a strong supporter of a basic social safety net that is backed by the strength and power of who we are as a...
We applaud Chairman Harkin (D-IA) and Ranking Member Enzi (R-WY) for focusing on what can be done to help Americans save more for retirement...
if the United States of America exists, your Social Security will be there for you, because it is the only retirement system backed by the f...
Automatic enrollment was a good first step.
There is no question that it's getting harder and harder for the average person to retire.
There has to be a way to make saving for retirement simpler.
