We have unemployment rates in Indian Country that are through the roof. I think this is a big part of that.
I cannot believe--and I do not know what happened to the system that would allow justification for somebody to tell you that you are not get...
It is long past the time where we need to start to bring accountability and change the way contractors do business for this country.
I just want to thank you guys for all your work. I very much appreciate it.
We proposed to cut it to $9.7 trillion, and the cost of the way the budget authority plays out slower in the form of outlays, it worked out ...
Everyone wants to reform the Tax Code. I don't know anyone who doesn't.
I think you have a two-to-one ratio of revenue raised to spending cuts.
I think the answer to Senator Kyl's question would be about $100 billion for deficit reduction; is that correct?
To raise about a trillion dollars worth of revenues.
But it just kind of sounds like it is what Congress wants to do.
Which means that the Appropriations Committees of the Congress could decide to spend more on security than is allowed under the caps in the ...
But if we were to set a cap, then that would be scored?
I think that it is up to the Congress, as I said, to designate what it views as related to those operations.
The Budget Control Act, as you mentioned, had two separate caps--for what is it, 2012 and 2013?
I would like to just focus a little bit on defense spending.
There are no caps on war spending?
This is not an easy undertaking, corporate tax reform. It takes time, and often when we go down this road it is more complicated than we thi...
What if this committee were to establish caps? Would that be scored?