Our budget is about choices, and it is about values.
We have an obligation to come together to find a balanced solution to avoid sequester and get back to the regular order ...
And we all want a strong social safety net. We are a very compassionate society.
There are no tax increases that are going to help our economy grow.
But the balanced approach, if you increase taxes, it is going to harm economic growth.
These arbitrary and indiscriminate across-the-board cuts will reduce, according to many economists, expected GDP growth ...
I just want to ask any member of the panel, is there any tax increase that you know of that helps our economy grow or ke...
I just kind of have a common-sense notion that the way you really strengthen the middle class is have a strong economy, ...
We have enticed our children to incur collectively $1 trillion of debt in higher education.
I would suggest--I am glad that Senator Wyden is here--the way to do that is treat all corporate income as pass-through ...
I would like to scrap the entire thing, rebuild the tax system on pretty basic principles: raise the revenue you need, d...
These are just some of the choices that we are facing that demand our action.
Do any of you know of a tax increase that is going to promote economic growth or that will make us more competitive glob...
The way we start controlling health care costs is we reconnect the consumer of the product with the payment of the produ...
We are cutting away at things like education and scientific research and innovation, which have previously provided a st...
This year alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that sequestration will cost our economy about three-quarters...
We cannot have all stimulus or all austerity. We need to have a balanced approach.
In my view, our country faces twin challenges, stabilizing our debt and deficit without shortchanging our future.
