I certainly understand why a power plant or a company that is exercising its best efforts to try to make transitions and...
I would appreciate that.
We have the message about simplicity, we have the message about tax reform, and we also, I think, understand the importa...
I think most individuals really do want to voluntarily comply, but, with the complexity and the uncertainty and the lack...
I would hope that the IRS, which is now having to employ 2,500 people to deal with identity theft, would take a very pro...
That is an incredible number. And we know it is the fastest-growing--I think it is the fastest-growing crime in America.
You are only as strong as your weakest link, and the more people who have access to Social Security numbers, the more vu...
I think they are doing an incredible job. They are being asked to do more with less under very stressful conditions.
The President has put forward a plan to get rid of that over 10 years and replace it with a balanced approach.
What we are seeing out of this process is a totally unbalanced approach.
Apparently, our Republican colleagues decided to put the taxpayer at risk instead.
Why would you enter into an agreement where our Republican colleagues can come back and say well, hey, we can spend $1 b...
I don't see how you can't also take the position that 50 percent of that spending has to come from defense.
I hope we are not going to be driven to a government shutdown by our Republican colleagues.
I think we all agree that that meat-axe, indiscriminate approach is the wrong way to go.
I hope we will all take the same balanced approach to reducing the deficit as has been recommended by bipartisan commiss...
The sequester was included in the legislation as a last resort to encourage, to pressure the Congress to develop a bipar...
But that is not what the Ag Committee chose to do. What they chose to do was to cut food nutrition programs that will cu...
