Surely the President claims his budget replaces sequestration, but he fails to provide a plan that has any chance of pas...
We are now on a systemically dangerous path of debt.
Our gross Federal debt after rising $6 trillion in the last 4 years will rise another $9 trillion by 2023.
I resent the fact that people suggest that those of us who have a different view of how to help poor people somehow do n...
We can remove the debt cloud, the drag that this debt has over us, and put us on the path to prosperity.
What this budget provides is the old-time Democratic religion of tax and spend.
Federal Government debt is now-- gross debt_is 103 percent.
The picture CBO paints of the next 10 years is immensely disturbing.
I believe that budget should balance. We should balance it at least within 10 years.
We cannot continue on this course.
So it has been now 4 years since the Democratic-led Senate produced a budget.
You do not spend more money than you take in. That is what it means.
This plan is not balanced, even under the sophisticated understanding of balance propounded by the President.
This budget, like the Senate budget, is not a balanced budget, nowhere close to being a balanced budget.
Your budget would require people to send $1.1 trillion more to Washington at a time when the economy is already weak.
We have no higher obligation as lawmakers than to protect the financial security of the Republic.
Erskine Bowles sat in the chair you are in now and said we face the most predictable economic crisis in our Nation's his...
Compassion and help for the poor and struggling amounts to more than just borrowing money and sending out more money in ...