We ran the numbers, Dr. Elmendorf, with the CBO figures. You all indicated that we are going to spend $2.5 trillion this...
Market economics has always been about chicken-and-egg. You make investment decisions, and if they are the right ones, p...
the Obama administration, to its credit--Senator Conrad and I have been hearing encouraging news on this point--wants to...
I want to commend you and Senator Gregg on putting together this panel.
I think your last point is really one to wrap up on.
I just say respectfully I hope that you and your colleagues who are the best in the business will come up with more aggr...
You all gave $700 billion--first installment $350 billion, perhaps the vote tonight on $350 million more--to these finan...
I was thrilled that Chairman Baucus, who has done very good work on this health reform issue, has also put out in his Wh...
CBO essentially outlines some options like that.
I mean, certainly if you are well off, there ought to be some copays.
Mr. Chair, it is a delight to be here, and particularly to be here for a hearing on housing, which is so important to ci...
CBO has correctly identified health care spending as the biggest driver in long-term Federal spending growth.
none of that comes close to the kind of market-making, incentive-changing activity that you will see by reforming the Ta...
It is absolutely key that it be changed because it rewards inefficiency and is regressive in nature.
I thank my friend, and I always miss hearing Senator Whitehouse on the budget, and I will catch up.
I just want to draw your attention to an EPA report from 2007, which identified 63 sites in 26 States where water was co...
my fear is the long-term ecological health of the region and what ends up bioaccumulating into the wildlife over time.
I imagine there are a range of options under consideration, whether or not to go to dry storage, whether to increase the...
