I am just asking if you will be a vocal advocate for a strong dollar policy and acknowledge that a strong dollar that ma...
We cannot continue on this course.
I believe that budget should balance. We should balance it at least within 10 years.
The picture CBO paints of the next 10 years is immensely disturbing.
This budget increases our debt over $8 trillion over 10 years.
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 ...
As the law requires, the Senate not only has a legal but a moral duty to present the taxpayers with a plan.
Our gross Federal debt after rising $6 trillion in the last 4 years will rise another $9 trillion by 2023.
The administration claims that the increased spending and debt will grow the economy, however.
Your budget would require people to send $1.1 trillion more to Washington at a time when the economy is already weak.
This budget, like the Senate budget, is not a balanced budget, nowhere close to being a balanced budget.
This plan is not balanced, even under the sophisticated understanding of balance propounded by the President.
You do not spend more money than you take in. That is what it means.
So it has been now 4 years since the Democratic-led Senate produced a budget.
We are now on a systemically dangerous path of debt.
We are in a danger zone, and there are many ways for us to get out of it, but this budget does not get us out of it.
We have the weakest recovery since the end of World War II.