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...
You have got the job loss, 750,000 jobs between now and the end of the month.
I just want to make that clear to our colleagues.
Instead of a trickle-down economics, which you had for 8 years--...we got a trickle up. I prefer trickle up.
I think that we have to legislate for all of America.
We have to act. That is why I said it from the very beginning.
I consider this one of the greatest threats and one of the greatest vulnerabilities, because we failed to pass the legis...
I think we also focus considerable resources, perhaps not as many as we should--but there's a lot of attention and discu...
I was struck by the mother's remark, 'It is as difficult for me to provide the supports that my son needs as it would be...
I've either been misled, misrepresented, had to pull information out--often at the most minimal kind of way.
The high quality jobs associated with maintaining and building our waterways infrastructure makes reauthorizing WRDA all...
