Many of my Republican friends are in favor of cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting Medicaid, cutting nutrition programs for ki...
Many of my Republican colleagues believe that what is best for the country in the future is basically to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut Social Secu...
Instead of losing 800,000 jobs a month, as we were during the final months of the Bush administration, we are now creating some 250,000 jobs...
I happen to believe not only that we should not cut Social Security, but we should expand benefits.
The wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well.
Instead of having a record-breaking $1.4 trillion deficit, as we did when President Bush left office in January 2009, the Federal deficit ha...
some of my Republican colleagues are looking forward to either cutting Social Security or moving to the privatization of Social Security.
In my view, on the other hand, if we are serious about rebuilding the disappearing middle class, reducing income and wealth inequality, and ...
At a time when more Americans are unable to go to college, the President proposes the first two years of community college to be free, that ...
Our job is to protect the middle class. Let us get to work doing that.
The top one percent own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
At a time when 20 percent of our kids are living in poverty, the President's budget triples the Child Care Tax Credit to $3,000 per child an...
We are witnessing the Robin Hood principle in reverse.
I would hope that nobody here is going to be supportive of the 19-percent cut for some of the most vulnerable people in this country.
I have a feeling that the budget that your Committee majority will bring forth... will not be good for working families.
But it is my understanding also for many it is free. Is that correct? For lower-income people it might be free?
In my view, these cost overruns are a prime example of wasteful spending that only benefits the bottom lines of some of the largest defense ...
you hold people accountable.