Simply trusting China to--they have their own internal needs to have high rates of growth.
I have raised this with, hopefully, the Secretary-to-be, currently Senator Clinton, about the need to engage in robust diplomacy.
I think in a very real way, the ball game on climate change is bringing the Chinese and the Indians into a global agreement.
The bottom line is this essentially green-lights more without dealing with the enormous amount of waste that we have.
Barack Obama, to his credit, made two pledges in the campaign with respect to health care.
I think it is very important to do both.
without China participating, it is not going to work.
I think you said that the U.S. will take the first step and hopefully China will follow.
But you have to examine this new piece of legislation through the filter of some very unfortunate history with respect to the original progr...
I feel pretty strongly that going forward all the countries of the world, China and India included, have to be included in a carbon plan to ...
There is so much money obligated under these Federal tax rules that you could still honor those pledges.
I think Medicaid is a broken program. What I would like to see is poor people sitting next to their Congressperson in their doctor's waiting...
We have got a lot of heavy lifting left to do.
I thank my friend, and I always miss hearing Senator Whitehouse on the budget, and I will catch up.
It is absolutely key that it be changed because it rewards inefficiency and is regressive in nature.
none of that comes close to the kind of market-making, incentive-changing activity that you will see by reforming the Tax Code.
CBO has correctly identified health care spending as the biggest driver in long-term Federal spending growth.
Democrats have fought--and, in my view, correctly so--to get everybody covered. It is the moral thing to do, and it is also the economic thi...