While we await the full details of the department's proposals, there are a few immediate notable aspects of the request.
I think it is extremely important to have this hearing today for the reasons the chairman outlined.
On behalf of Chairman McCain, I would like to request unanimous consent to include written comments in the record from o...
Whatever we do, I think you will manage, which presents the interesting problem that we could be in a period of a steady...
from the political perspective, if you are a lobbyist for a big special interest and you go to the Appropriations Commit...
I share that concern. And I have heard directly from industry that, given the significant drawdown in R&D, that they are...
What are we going to do about the $1.2 trillion that goes out the back door of the tax code through loopholes?
there is a quality of this just being a very seamy and disreputable side of the legislative business
when we open up with blaming the Obama administration for debt levels that relate back to a war he did not start, tax cu...
there is nothing that I would be more pleased with than a nonpartisan conversation about the debt and the deficit.
Now, both Social Security and Social Security disability are funded by the payroll tax, correct?
The predicament that Social Security is in some say has something to do with income inequality...
to ask them to contribute a little bit more of the above $10 million salary to Social Security does not seem like asking...
We hear folks right in this committee and out on the floor who talk a really good game on debt and on the deficit.
if we keep pushing on delivery system reform, the bipartisan SGR, the 'doc fix' that we have included, we have lots of p...
If less of America's income is subject to taxation than otherwise would be, the revenues for the program are less than t...
health care cost is really what is driving our long-term debt and deficits.
we are proposing a mandatory toll charge of 14 percent on the roughly $2 trillion of earnings that are overseas and have...
