I would appreciate that.
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...
The cuts would be both too deep and too arbitrary.
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...
I hope we are not going to be driven to a government shutdown by our Republican colleagues.
Now, that is not a balanced approach. Not one penny from big agribusiness, not one penny from ag subsidies.
You leave defense exposed for the remaining 9 years.
Why would you enter into an agreement where our Republican colleagues can come back and say well, hey, we can spend $1 b...
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.
I don't see how you can't also take the position that 50 percent of that spending has to come from defense.
I think we all agree that that meat-axe, indiscriminate approach is the wrong way to go.
Unfortunately, our Republican colleagues decided it was more important to protect some of those special interest tax loo...
The reality is that they put up something that didn't contain any of the backup that the President provided.
It is very clear that it is deficit reduction.
Apparently, our Republican colleagues decided to put the taxpayer at risk instead.
That, Mr. Chairman, I think is a twisted result.
