Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Mr. Secretary, for all of your companions who are working so hard on these issues...
I want to echo Senator Whitehouse's concern about the chained CPI.
Has the President and his team carefully looked at such measures and tried to evaluate them in terms of fairness to our ...
I applaud the President's attention to manufacturing in this budget. I applaud his investment in education, early educat...
the argument is often made that Social Security, the premiums go into the trust fund, the trust fund lends money out to ...
So we are looking at another set of decisions, and right now we are on a course to have a significant drop in defense an...
I think that is very important because at the heart of this is an issue of fairness.
About roughly 20 years before the trust fund itself is depleted.
I think, makes a lot of sense and ought to be our philosophical underpinnings in this area.
We want the Guard, whose work we support and admire, to have the tools.
I intend to fight it with whatever means I have at my disposal.
This is a view that I very much share, and what is striking is outside the Senate--outside the Senate--security and econ...
This scourge has been debated for it seems like longer than--a longer running debate than the Trojan War.
Do not get rid of them. Do not divest them.
About as good a value as we can get in this country.
But it seems to me we are now moving in the direction of adding another component, and that is value.
They do not want this to be the only measure of their education, but they want it to be one measure.
It's the idea of giving any president unfettered power to kill an American without checks and balances that's so troubli...
