Medicare today is about cancer, it is about diabetes, it is about heart disease, it is about stroke.
So please do not paint me into the corner of being an obstructionist or partisan about doing something about the debt when you have taken th...
Am I correct that you also understand that in an economy where 70 percent of our GDP is based on consumer demand, that when we have millions...
Does that concern you, that the collective amount coming into the Federal Government from corporations, in general, have declined precipitou...
At a time when the U.S. spends more on the Pentagon than the next nine countries combined, and when over half of our discretionary spending ...
the Federal minimum wage today of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage
Does it concern you that we have seen a massive shift in income and wealth inequality in this country so that we have the highest proportion...
The situation has become so absurd that the Pentagon is unable to even account for how it spends its money.
I suspect on this issue you are right, there should be a nonpartisan approach.
I think the history of the last number of decades is that we have taken from the middle class and the working families of this country and g...
the answer is spending is one cause of deficit, but not raising revenue is another cause of deficit.
The fact of the matter is that over the last 40 years, under Democratic and Republican leadership, we have witnessed an enormous transfer of...
if that massive transfer of wealth and income did not take place, Social Security would be in much better financial shape
Everybody has health insurance, so maybe we should have a hearing here as to how that works.
I love the idea that we brought somebody from Europe to be with us today. I think that is a great idea, and I think we should do more of it.
I know that the oil companies have huge clout around here. They do not need subsidies.
Today millions of Americans are working longer hours for low wages. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Ea...
In this country, do you know what the number is?
