I just wanted that clarification.

the question is how we as a society decide to allocate those costs and whether or not we should ask folks at the very high income scale to, for example, pay more payroll taxes

one of the things that Senator Sanders has been pointing out is that we can actually do a lot when it comes to trying to improve the solvency of Social Security through reducing some of those tax expenditures

I hope that in this, a lot of the heated rhetoric around immigration, this was a bipartisan bill which would increase economic growth, reduce the deficit, improve the solvency of Social Security.

We talked a little bit about economic growth and the impact on deficits.

There has been a lot of talk lately about reducing immigration to the United States, and I think it is important to remind our colleagues that CBO did an analysis of the bipartisan immigration reform bill that passed the Senate a couple of…

If you were to adopt the bill, the reconciliation bill, the Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act that went to President Obama, which he vetoed, we would immediately see premiums go up even further, significantly further, 20 to 25…

Is there a way for CBO to do that kind of analysis?

Will you agree that it would be a bad idea to pass a tax plan that the Joint Tax Committee, using their dynamic scoring analysis, concludes will increase the deficit and the national debt?

the Wharton School study cuts it by $55 billion, which was a surprise to many people.

There is no doubt about that, and as I said, I had hoped that maybe we would begin with something like that.

A lot of us had hoped that we might get off to a start in this Congress on a bipartisan basis.

Please, as someone who has a reputation as a straight shooter, do not come before this committee and pretend this is in balance.

you cut the Social Security disability. I think that is a bad choice.

you do not want to close one tax break for the purpose of reducing the deficit.

this is only really great for taxpayers who are in the top 1 percent.

Look, it is flimflam. I understand you are now representing President Trump who put the parameters that you described on you.

I think all of us would like to see us spend what we need on our national defense and national security. We also all, I would hope, do not want to see money wasted there more than anywhere else.