But as everyone on this Committee knows, the path before us is going to be a struggle.
every time we have had a balanced budget in recent memory, revenues have been higher than we are projected to experience...
I have long believed that early childhood education is one of the best investments the Federal Government can make.
it will be very possible for a hedge fund manager to pay a lower tax rate on his income than a soldier or a police offic...
I was really dismayed to once again see how drastically underfunded the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund is.
we have to consider the retirement of the baby boomers and the need to invest in our people and in our infrastructure.
The revenue policy in the budget that this Committee wrote and the Senate passed... was shaped by those unavoidable real...
I believe that is what every bipartisan group that has examined our budget situation... has also recommended several tim...
I want to have everybody gets a chance to ask.
I am hopeful that this Committee can be a place where we can come together to tackle our fiscal and economic challenges ...
There has been nothing regular about the lurching from crisis to crisis over the past year.
we might want to ask those folks for more revenue rather than cutting back on the needs of some of the most vulnerable p...
They are about the families across America whose lives will be impacted by the decisions that we make.
I believe our focus should be on jobs and the economy, not on arbitrarily creating pain for American families.
Budgets are reflections of our values and our priorities and our vision for what our Government and our country and our ...
I am very concerned and have said repeatedly that this managing our country by crisis to crisis is really hurting famili...
Governors in tough times are investing because they get it.
I can't urge you strongly enough that that date is critical.
