What do we do to create growth and get our debt under control? Is it just raise taxes or is it reduce spending?
Well, both parties--
Excessive, non-productive spending and the consequently high and growing national debt hurt the pace of economic activit...
Would you agree that tax increases are a form of austerity as well as spending cuts?
I think that bipartisan support for a serious plan to enhance our infrastructure, but the American people need to know h...
We must start defining compassion and helpfulness, not by how much money we spend but how many people we actually help t...
We must stick to that agreement. We need to spread the spending cuts around.
It appears that the White House has been using numbers of high-cost States.
I simply ask, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as a former business investor, would you ever invest in a business th...
I think the economic argument that defense is the source of our fiscal problems is really wrong.
2014 is going to be a particularly problematic time because the cuts come so fast that there is no real way to phase the...
I do not believe this sequester is going to be fixed with new taxes.
The austerity we talk about is raising taxes.
I personally believe that the $520 billion would be a really difficult swing, but I think it should be developed by stra...
the greatest threat to our national security is our debt
It is time to adopt a balanced approach, as my colleagues say, to deficit reduction.
I thank you, and Governors Warner and Kaine and King work hard to deal with the budget issues that they face.
I am beginning to wonder if the President is not quite happy to see the Defense Department take this much cuts.