the day you publish the Medicare database in this country, you would have, in effect, a new baseline for health care in America.
you cannot know it without access to the data. So I am totally in favor of using data to add transparency.
I am especially appreciative of the fact that you cited those numbers at the beginning of your opening comments because they are certainly e...
I think there is a legitimate question that does have to be faced, which is given the increased pressures that will come on the Federal budg...
I believe that the best tax reform would be either revenue neutral or, ideally, would provide for some revenue increases.
the flip side of austerity is growth, and you have had a lot of important papers and comments over the years with respect to consumer demand...
No, your point is very well taken, and obviously, in this kind of fiscal climate, you cannot just promise and promise some more and not have...
I very much share your view that part of propelling consumer demand here is going to be making sure that anything we do is fair and equitabl...
I am not sure that we can afford as a country large-scale tax cutting, whether it is oriented to the middle class or whether it is oriented ...
I think some of my colleagues had a little bit of a taste of how outrageous this has gotten.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is clearly an area where I think Democrats and Republicans can work together.
We have millions of people, these working-class, middle-class people, who are pinched.
This is something that is way wrong.
A very good one.
I think the kind of thing we saw on the front page of the New York Times is a little bit different than a deduction to loaves and fishes in ...
tax-exempt financing ought to be about general obligation bonds. It ought to be about the needs of the States to finance infrastructure and ...
This is not a partisan issue; this is an abuse, a flagrant abuse, of the tax code.
