Let me be very clear. We want the safest possible passenger rail systems.
The most obvious policy step to facilitate more mortgage financing is rolling back the GSE's loan level pricing adjustme...
I think it is important not to overreach. Uncertainty is an issue in the mortgage market.
This is going to be hard. There is no magic bullet here.
I am sure you would agree that when it comes to its impact on economic growth, not all Government spending is equal.
That suggests to me that it is very dangerous to delay making meaningful reform.
If we can have policies that will encourage maximizing economic growth, all problems are easier to solve with a strong, ...
It is our health-care costs that is driving the deficit and debt crisis that we have.
My point is over this 10-year period, we have seen huge growth in nondefense discretionary spending.
And at the end of the day, you know, nobody likes this, but without talking about death panels and that kind of crazy st...
I would just urge us to consider that there is another theory here, which is that Government can't really create demand ...
But I think it is worth noting, and I think you will all agree, that the growth in Federal revenue is related to the gro...
I think we should be very conscious of the fact that reducing tax expenditures, it matters very much which ones and how ...
Medicare is the real driver of the entire health-care picture.
I think if you want everybody to have prescription drugs, then I don't know why in the world you wouldn't have Medicare ...
For whatever other reasons, from a purely economic consideration, if you choose to use a less efficient source of energy...
For every dollar that was dedicated to lowering rates, there was a dollar dedicated to deficit.
I think it underscores how important it is that whatever we do attempts to create an environment to maximize growth.
