As Senator Lamar Alexander and I wrote in an op-ed very recently, scientific research is a high-yield investment.
The sequester is dangerous. Please do not let it happen.
We need relief from Washington, flexibility from Washington...
Why would we reduce the part of the Federal budget that generates these returns in science, innovation, and economics just at the time when ...
States have to fix them year after year after year, and at the point of spend we are at right now...
This is a sad day for this committee, a sad day for Congress, a sad day for America.
How does that make sense? We do not even curb our CODELs, much less take a salary reduction.
This is all the result of collateral damage from political gridlock.
Let's take some responsibility here.
The best I can tell this committee is doing little or nothing except talking about it.
We have the power to fund this shortfall. Let's use that power.
If we won't fund the mission, let's have the courage to admit a smaller mission.
Nearly 50 million people live in poverty; 16 million are children. And this is unacceptable.
Our budget is not only a road map to fiscal responsibility, but it is also a moral document.
Unless Congress acts by March 1, the sequester will slash thousands of jobs.
I will continue, as a member of this committee, to remind this committee that nearly 50 million people live in poverty; 16 million are child...
Maybe we actually have an energy policy in the United States and don't know it.
We've always said there is a role for the Federal Government in making sure that kids that are disadvantaged, for whatever reason, are fully...
