If we cut out investments in them, we diminish our ability to lay down a foundation for long-term growth and prosperity.
Your feeling today is that when she starts kindergarten she will be--
I learned that again and again in working on early childhood education issues in Virginia that just a little bit of earl...
We agree--we agree--we need to address this significant part of our Federal spending.
here we are today, days away from a possible government shutdown which could affect hundreds of thousands of workers' jo...
They held the economy hostage over the debt ceiling in 2011 in an effort to create enough chaos to force their ideologic...
If left unchanged, the President's health care law could deal a devastating blow to the Federal budget.
The role of the Congress in appropriating money, it is a congressional role.
The Senate wants to go into a budget conference, to sit down at a conference table.
We are not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act, because if we did, we would be saying to all of those kids, hey, you...
I hope we could all be working together right now to make sure Obamacare is implemented in the best way possible.
There has got to be a solution here.
But there is no way that the world is going to stay the same if the United States plays a lesser role in the world.
some of the Tea Party Republicans have stood up and blocked these bipartisan negotiations between the House and the Sena...
we need to be strong as a Nation and we need to have that national defense that is both strategic and funded at an appro...
I just believe we owe it to the American people to come together around some solutions that help our economy grow.
We had a February vote in the Senate to avoid the sequester completely.
we are not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act and we should not repeal the Affordable Care Act.