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health care is where it is at.
This requires strong action, determined action.
President Obama is walking into a fiscal disaster of stunning proportion.
the new deficit projections, as I said yesterday, are jaw-dropping.
Clearly, that is unsustainable.
We would rather set up a process to get to that policy, which requires decisions and then requires action that is the be...
I want to welcome everyone to the Budget Committee today. The hearing this morning will focus on the debt outlook and it...
We have to put in place an aggressive economic recovery program.
CBO's new estimates show the deficit in 2009 will be $1.2 trillion.
We need a stimulus package. We need it badly. But we need it to be on point.
If anybody thinks this stuff is just numbers on a page, they are in for one hell of a surprise.
We have a revenue system that, too, I think is broken, badly out of date.
What is going to happen is our banking system as we know it is going to change.
Deficits and debt are a function of the imbalance between spending and revenue.
We face one of the worst budget forecasts I have ever seen.
Obviously, if you lived through the Great Depression you may have seen it, but nobody else has seen it.
I was extremely encouraged by the President's Inaugural Address yesterday and by his comments obviously prior to that.
