the answer is not to cut benefits, but at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, to ask the people on top to start paying their fair share of taxes

if you lift the cap on income of $250,000 or more, which is just the very highest income earners in this country, Social Security will be solvent for the next 60 years.

This is an enormously important issue, and the DoD must be run cost-effectively and efficiently.

For every dollar that we spend on defense, we have got to spend on the needs of working families.

Let me tell the President, Mr. Mulvaney, it gets cold in Vermont and many other parts of this country.

83 percent of those tax benefits by the end of the 10-year period go to the top 1 percent.

I introduced legislation that would lift the cap on taxable Social Security income for people making $250,000 a year or more.

I do not think there is any debate among anybody here that we want to be able to defend our country.

Am I right in saying that or not?

But isn't that a sensible way to proceed?

the recent tax bill that was passed, supported, I believe, by almost every Republican, will increase the national debt by $1.9 trillion.

I do not have to tell anybody that in America today there is a lot of political demoralization.

We should ask why the DoD does not.

Does it make sense to you that we pay the Secretary of Defense $200,000 or less and we give a contractor... $18 million of taxpayer money?

CBO found that 32 million fewer people would have health insurance after 10 years and that average premiums in the non-group market would almost double by 2026.

when you throw 32 million people off of their health insurance, tens of thousands of them will die.

You do not help working families when your budget would eliminate financial aid to more than a million and a half low-income college students.

But, presumably, Mr. Dodaro, doesn't somebody at the DoD know that, know what you are talking about?