It is a scandal, and it is approaching a crisis point.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciated the reference, Mr. Chairman, to the Small Business Lending Fund, which was a proposal that I develop...
I would much prefer to do it in concert working with you than trying to go forward myself.
There are many, many approaches other than a short-term transfer onto the working Americans of health care costs.
We have proposed, the Senators who have put this forward have proposed having a Department of Energy Security...
What has been missing, in my thinking, is for the Department of Energy to lay out a plan for how we are going to end our dependence on forei...
Four Senators have put out a plan as a bill that lays out a pathway to reducing our consumption of oil by over 8 million barrels per day.
do we have a major challenge as a Nation in which we are spending too much money on foreign wars and foreign bases rather than on domestic i...
Are we as a Nation spending too much on foreign wars and foreign bases rather than on education and infrastructure?
I just want to share with you that, as I do my every county townhalls, it comes up time and time again that these school districts, they can...
Isn't that kind of a sign of something massively wrong in our national education system?
What has essentially happened since 1974 is that, inflation adjusted, the wages of working Americans have stayed flat for 35 years.
I just want to express a lot of concern about the cuts that are there.
We have had administrations in the past that have talked about attacking our dependence on foreign oil and our addiction to oil in general.
we are calling upon the Federal Government to honor its contract with the counties.
We reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we create American jobs, and we have environmental benefits.
I am delighted to see... the funding of low-cost loans for energy renovations.
I appreciate the question that Senator Wyden asked about the effect the budget is going to have on the 750,000 small businesses.
