For whatever other reasons, from a purely economic consideration, if you choose to use a less efficient source of energy...
I think if you want everybody to have prescription drugs, then I don't know why in the world you wouldn't have Medicare ...
Medicare is the real driver of the entire health-care picture.
My point is over this 10-year period, we have seen huge growth in nondefense discretionary spending.
It is our health-care costs that is driving the deficit and debt crisis that we have.
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 like to make another point about this which has to do with inflation.
Isn't it generally likely that if we use the Tax Code to distort economic activity on balance we are going to have less ...
Isn't it true that as recently as 2007 the current tax rate structure yielded revenue that was about 18.5 percent of GDP...
The main reason that total revenue as a percentage of GDP is so much lower than the historical levels is because we have...
Isn't there a danger that the magnitude of the debt is already impeding economic growth?
We are not being attacked and we were not attacked because of our actions. We were attacked, as Newt talked about, becau...
It is because of Senator Casey that we can track, in real time, the possibility of a flood and critical river level data...
For me the mere expenditure of funds is not a measurement of success.
this issue of child care is a bipartisan concern.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here, and all of our colleagues.
if we say we care about our kids, and as I've often said, every child is born with a light inside them, if that light is...
the number of IEDs is dramatically higher.
