We should acknowledge that a cap-and-trade program is going to cause transitional issues in our economy and for individuals.
I think it is something we have to deal with in Congress.
Mr. Chairman, I too share the President's goal to 'end our addiction to oil, address the global climate crisis, and create new American jobs...
Simply put, without additional American natural gas supplies, we will fail to reduce our short-term carbon emissions and instead dramaticall...
We have a spending addiction in Washington, D.C., and it has proven to be an addiction that Congress cannot control on its own.
We need a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution.
Bad banks must be held accountable for their incompetence, or we will all go broke.
If Americans must exercise restraint with their own funds, then government officials must be required to exercise an even higher standard wh...
For the money we have doled out to pay for the war, we could have provided: Health care coverage to every American without it.
I care much more about the well being of Floridians then I do about Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.
I am pleased to see that President Obama will champion increases in spending for healthcare, education, and expanded benefits for our vetera...
I do not think our budget should already make an assumption about how that debate is going to turn out.
None of us are really happy with the price we pay for prescription drugs here in the United States of America.
I don't think that is responsible budgeting, to go ahead and assume that this type of program is going to exist in that form with that level...
President Obama has shown that he is going to address the challenge of health care reform head-on.
This increase combined with the fact that I've gone almost three years without a pay increase... has us reeling!
The Obama administration has proposed a 16 percent increase to the VA budget, or nearly $113 billion.
This is simply unacceptable.
