I do believe there are important priorities here in energy, reducing our dependence on foreign energy.
I very much want to see that separate, not because I am not supporting doing something on cap-and-trade, because I am an...
I commend you for having a budget that is a net tax cut for the middle class of this country.
Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?
You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other indust...
I want to thank you for that as well, because this budget really does reflect being responsible about how we get where w...
I remember when our previous Vice President said that deficits don't matter, and, in fact, we all know that they do.
If you are at 23 percent of GDP for spending, and you only get your revenues up to 18.2 percent of GDP, you have got a s...
You cannot claim that you are being disciplined if you leave off the table the most significant item that has to be addr...
The outrage of people cannot be dismissed.
On an overall basis, I see something quite different, and I think CBO will also conclude something quite different.
I certainly salute his transparency, putting on the table things we know are going to be expenditures.
I am very concerned about the second 5 years.
it would be an utterly empty exercise around here not to get the votes to actually pass things.
the budget as is, in my judgment, just as it has been written, probably can't pass here.
This budget extends the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for everybody earning below $250,000 a year.
I have described the President's budget as a 'good beginning.'
there is going to have to be flexibility on how the funds are used.