So we are basically saying to the middle class that have been unemployed for how many weeks, you said? What is the percentage?
It is imperative that we focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of the debt, instead of the protector of our prosperity.
The unintended consequence is the signal that you send to our adversaries because they measure some of our actions as our resolve, our natio...
Our budget is 40 percent out of whack. You know, the amount of money we raise is 40 percent less than the amount of money we spend.
If you accept for the moment that we need to balance that budget and that we are not going to bring in any new revenue and we can't touch de...
I did not support the debt ceiling agreement in large part because all of the cuts were lumped on to the non-entitlement portion of the budg...
I think the points you gentlemen make about the challenges to the Department of Defense budget and the missions we have asked our uniformed ...
I remain concerned that our Nation is slipping back into the false confidence of a September 10th mindset.
But all this talk about dollars doesn't translate well into actual impacts on the force and risk to our Nation.
the proposed cuts in the defense budget are a big risk, particularly if we do not make the cuts necessary to prevent sequestration.
The tax should be repealed. And I want to commend Congressman Bilbray for his leadership in introducing H.R. 734 to repeal this punitive tax...
The tax penalizes an industry that is innovative and that achieves the main goals of health care reform: lowering costs while improving pati...
You have to have a disability that is going to keep you off the rolls for a year, that you are going to be unable to work for a year, or die...
The bottom line being if you keep them poor enough and hungry enough, they will ultimately finally find some way to get out of it; is that w...
Such projects were under way before the program existed, and undoubtedly they will continue to stand on their own economically after it has ...
Mr. Hastings. It used to be northern Oregon.
the Republican budget would cut over $105 million from taxpayer service.
the Republican budget would cut $600 million of the IRS. This would hurt the program's integrity efforts.