Seven hundred and fifty thousand jobs between now at the end of this fiscal calendar year 2013, right?
It is important for our economy to have private savings.
We asked higher-income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.
I think the laws are well-intended. I think, on the ground, they are not working exactly as we all intended.
You have created a nemesis. You have created a situation where folks, you want folks to think that you want to protect t...
if we agree, Mr. Chairman, that those are just different forms of spending in the Tax Code, it seems to me we should be ...
I actually think we should have phased that out rather than having gone cold turkey, but the point is, a big chunk of th...
We should be working overtime to prevent that kind of job loss.
We need that desperately today.
I want to join the chairman in welcoming Dr. Elmendorf, and thank you and your team at the Congressional Budget Office f...
we are talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs lost this year if we don't replace the sequester.
We hope we can have an opportunity to have an up or down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we've put forward.
we asked higher income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.
The American people didn't buy that in the last election. They just simply did not buy it.
the result of that legislation was to make sure that we did not see a sharp increase in taxes on middle-income Americans...
we hope we can have an opportunity to have an up-or-down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we have put forward.
It would be absolutely counterproductive in terms of the long-term competitiveness, let alone the health of our people, ...
We should get rid of some of those [tax breaks], and we should get rid of some of those for the purpose of deficit reduc...
