There is a disconnect...between what we are doing as a country here in terms of our fiscal policy and our monetary policy and how it affects...
I wish every colleague of ours in the House and the Senate, and I wish every American could hear the description you just gave.
those of us in politics rarely admit we were wrong, but I was wrong about Dr. Holtz-Eakin.
We are building a wall of debt.
We need to help our colleagues understand what the risk is of a failure to address our long-term imbalances.
I believe that the buildup of Federal debt is the single biggest threat to our Nation's long-term economic security.
I am very, very concerned about some of these things that I hear about and read in the newspaper might be in this package.
I remember when our previous Vice President said that deficits don't matter, and, in fact, we all know that they do.
I have a lot of hope that we can find consensus on this issue.
You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other industrialized country in ...
Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?
I commend you for having a budget that is a net tax cut for the middle class of this country.
I very much want to see that separate, not because I am not supporting doing something on cap-and-trade, because I am and have very specific...
the commitment we made to the Secretary's people was we would get him out of here at 12:15, and we are close to that.
my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.
We will be judged whether we were responsible or not.
We should not take that off the table because I think your counsel there is excellent.
And this represents the best of our democracy, having a serious debate about serious things.
