It seems to me that a showdown over the debt ceiling resulted in Gramm-Rudman being passed. It resulted in the Balanced ...
It seems to me that the President ought to be leading, as Dr. Meltzer said, and helping us to reach an accord on some of...
We thought we had a real opportunity to fix long-term entitlements in the 2011 Budget Control Act process.
We in the Congress are a bit intimidated by the Fed. We tend to accept everything.
It scared the heck out of folks at the Anniston Army Depot in my district, for obvious reasons.
the country needs to know, and this is going a long way to helping that end.
He didn't make any proposals as to how to deal with sequestration.
We have got to have help from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to remedy this.
I think those are some good, specific proposals that we should do more of in the Government.
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, and we should be using that to reduce the corporate rate rather tha...
We need to avoid that crisis and we need more help from this administration to get our debt level down.
In this paper, 'public debt' refers to gross central government debt.
Those three studies--European Central Bank, IMF, and the Bank for International Settlements--also used gross debt, and e...
The President says this budget raises taxes $580 billion over 10 years, but the budget actually calls for $1.1 trillion ...
It balances in 10 years. It does not just use the word 'balance.' Its revenue equals its outflow.
I am generally of the view that we cannot grow our way out of this. I think we need to have some belt tightening.
I know we can do better, and I hope we will on that.
It is an absolute fact.
