I just want to make that clear to our colleagues.
we hope we can have an opportunity to have an up-or-down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we have put forward.
Instead of a trickle-down economics, which you had for 8 years--...we got a trickle up. I prefer trickle up.
we are talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs lost this year if we don't replace the sequester.
Unemployment would soar. It would set back progress on the economy.
We hope we can have an opportunity to have an up or down vote, Mr. Chairman, on the plan that we've put forward.
I want to join the chairman in welcoming Dr. Elmendorf, and thank you and your team at the Congressional Budget Office f...
You have got the job loss, 750,000 jobs between now and the end of the month.
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...
We asked higher-income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.
It is important for our economy to have private savings.
we passed the $600 billion tax increase focused on folks at the very high end of the income scale, but as the President ...
I think the laws are well-intended. I think, on the ground, they are not working exactly as we all intended.
We need that desperately today.
the result of that legislation was to make sure that we did not see a sharp increase in taxes on middle-income Americans...
We should be working overtime to prevent that kind of job loss.
I have never understood the logic as to how cuts to defense... somehow do not cost jobs.
