you cut the Social Security disability. I think that is a bad choice.
Please, as someone who has a reputation as a straight shooter, do not come before this committee and pretend this is in ...
A lot of us had hoped that we might get off to a start in this Congress on a bipartisan basis.
There is no doubt about that, and as I said, I had hoped that maybe we would begin with something like that.
the Wharton School study cuts it by $55 billion, which was a surprise to many people.
There has been a lot of talk lately about reducing immigration to the United States, and I think it is important to remi...
If you were to adopt the bill, the reconciliation bill, the Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act that went to Pr...
Is there a way for CBO to do that kind of analysis?
Will you agree that it would be a bad idea to pass a tax plan that the Joint Tax Committee, using their dynamic scoring ...
We talked a little bit about economic growth and the impact on deficits.
I hope that in this, a lot of the heated rhetoric around immigration, this was a bipartisan bill which would increase ec...
one of the things that Senator Sanders has been pointing out is that we can actually do a lot when it comes to trying to...
the question is how we as a society decide to allocate those costs and whether or not we should ask folks at the very hi...
I just wanted that clarification.
There is no question that the debt is on an unsustainable trajectory under current law.
Large and growing Federal debt over the coming decades would hurt the economy and constrain future budget policy.
If you were to eliminate a lot of those programs, you would have close to 40 million more Americans in poverty.
We want the money to be used effectively, not just thrown away.