So what I would like, respectfully, to see from the President is a plan to do what his own debt commission said we neede...
He is the President of the United States. He is supposed to lead.
I am talking about the specific proposal to reduce spending on entitlement programs over the next 10 years.
federally mandated Medicaid was soaking up money that I would like to put in higher education.
entitlement spending is most of the problem we have, is it not, with spending and deficit
Penalizing people for working is not compassionate. We need to rethink and restructure the way we administer our social ...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Sequestration needs to happen. Bottom line, it needs to happen, and that is the deal we struck to raise the debt limit.
The best I can tell this committee is doing little or nothing except talking about it.
This is a sad day for this committee, a sad day for Congress, a sad day for America.
We need relief from Washington, flexibility from Washington...
Let's take some responsibility here.
The sequester is dangerous. Please do not let it happen.
States have to fix them year after year after year, and at the point of spend we are at right now...
If we won't fund the mission, let's have the courage to admit a smaller mission.
Why would we reduce the part of the Federal budget that generates these returns in science, innovation, and economics ju...
As Senator Lamar Alexander and I wrote in an op-ed very recently, scientific research is a high-yield investment.
We have the power to fund this shortfall. Let's use that power.
