The argument that it cuts the deficit in half in 4 years is truly spurious.
I think it's smarter to invest when they're young--through programs like Head Start--rather than spending $50,000 a year...
We also keep talking about being bipartisan, but we do not act bipartisan.
Well, we were also told that with the first TARP that that money would go to buy toxic assets.
Nobody in America, I think, believes that we can spend the $700 billion or the $820 billion efficiently.
Mr. Chairman, I want to welcome you back to the committee and congratulate you on being the first to hold a hearing on P...
While we don't always agree and won't always agree, we have both put concrete healthcare proposals on the table for disc...
Senator Kennedy and I also have a track record of finding solutions for problems Americans face on the domestic policy f...
I would also like to congratulate Senator Daschle on his appointment and welcome this former colleague and member of thi...
I personally believe that we should have been offsetting some of the spending in this stimulus bill today.
Right now coal is the most affordable, available, reliable and secure source of energy.
We think that the R&D budget should be dramatically increased at the DOE and that the process that that R&D budget gets ...
Every independent group that has looked at this... has said that this carbon tax... represents a $300-billion-a-year inc...
Except that we are about to make it a Federal issue and a Federal tax, because we are talking about cap and trade, which...
I thought that the purpose of cap and trade was to have all of the money that was coming in from whatever was being taxe...
The budget proposes raising the effective tax rate from 35 percent to 41, 42 percent.
This is a budget which has fundamental flaws.
Our healthcare system is broken and fixing it is one area where I hope this 80 percent rule comes into play.
