Yes, we have to reduce our deficits and debt, no doubt about it in terms of our long term economic growth.
If you cut too fast too deeply, you will slow down a very fragile recovery and threaten to put people out of work.
I am here to ask today that we tackle the issue of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in our society.
It is about people who are locked and why the gap is continuing to get wider.
I do believe that we are responsible for responding to need.
They are crying out for a response from us.
I'd like to use that call for a Domestic Marshall Plan as a jumping off point for my remarks this morning.
This is not about skin color. It is about what I would call 'stressed' communities.
I would ask the committee to look into this and to see whether or not it makes sense for us to begin targeting resources where the needs rea...
Nothing has been a larger strain on this country's finances than the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have now cost us more than $1.1...
We can gain robust and immediate savings also from paring down the Pentagon's budget.
The budget resolution must include a substantial job creation initiative to get our economy moving.
Over the last 30 years, there has been a dramatic and deliberate transfer of wealth from the middle class to the very, very rich.
The CPC alternative budget does this by providing for the responsible and orderly redeployment of our troops and military contractors from I...
However, we believe the reforms could go farther by including a public option that would provide competition to private insurers and reduce ...
Not only do we need revenues, but we need to do it in a fair way.
Twenty-seven million, 31,000.
I have introduced H.R. 1124, the Fairness in Taxation Act, which would create new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires.
