the President's proposal is almost entirely new taxes and virtually nothing... on the spending restraint
before the taxpayers are faced with greater losses, I believe we must determine how the FHA got into this position, Mr. Secretary, and how i...
I will be very interested in seeing what the net effect of these changes are because we know that the interest rate component will reflect a...
I am looking forward to seeing a supplemental that is well crafted and, I hope, properly offset, because we also have a fiscal crisis of eno...
If revenue has to be part of this--I don't think that that's economically or fiscally necessary or optimal--but if it is politically necessa...
I am confident though we can get this done, that the Congress of the United States can come together and successfully reach the compromise t...
It looks like $200 billion of what they put under the $600 billion heading is in fact revenue--fees and various other forms of revenue.
tax reform is spending cuts. There is no difference if I give you a mortgage interest deduction or I cut you a check.
the spending reductions have systematically been overstated in recent years by the President
in the economy that we have now, with the highest corporate tax in the developed world... it's impossible to envision generating the kind of...
I think it is clear that there is a headline tax increase that he wants of $1.6 trillion.
You know, there is another approach that you can take in negotiations, and in my experience it has been a more successful one.
I think it is just a bad time to be keeping all of the tax candy, the tax expenditures, and lifting taxes on the few people who are actually...
The problem is there is a provision in this international law, which we would be adopting if the Senate ratifies this, which puts the state ...
The problem is, there's a provision in this international law, which we would be adopting if the Senate ratifies this, that puts the state, ...
I see we are at that point right now.
We do not talk about it enough in the Senate, and I am grateful that you are demonstrating continued leadership on this issue.
Now, I realize that sometimes the best thing for the Congress to do is to provide resources as best we can and to get out of the way.
