more than 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.
several of these new requirements I believe are nothing more than a back-handed way to make it easier to cut taxes
Yet my Republican colleagues have been absolutely determined to make certain that the wealthy and large corporations not contribute one penn...
If we do not act by November 3rd, we will default on our bills for the first time in our Nation's history.
the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
I hope we can all agree right now that the United States Government should pay its bills on time.
At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, let us work together on a budget that is fair.
I think that was a serious mistake. These arbitrary, across-the-board budget cuts are damaging the economy.
Bottom line is we are spending substantially less in rebuilding our infrastructure than we have in the past.
I see that the CBO has begun to study the impacts that climate change may have on the Federal budget.
We need to have a tax system which ends the enormous loopholes that currently exist.
Do you really want to balance the budget by cutting education, by cutting health care, by cutting nutrition?
the wealthiest family in this country, one family, the Waltons, owning more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of the American people.
If they to accept the benefits of being Americans, they are going to have to accept their responsibilities as well.
CBO has shed employees and seen a shrinking budget
it is absolutely essential for the CBO to provide us with independent, nonpartisan, and unbiased scores or projections
Defaulting on our debt would be a disaster.
we have to look at the broader picture of what is happening in America.