We don't pay our bills by going deeper into debt. That is avoiding paying our bills and guaranteeing eventual default.
Think about what the deal was, a $14 trillion debt; we raise it $2.4 trillion; we got $21 billion in savings the first y...
The administration assailed critics by claiming there was a consensus amongst economists that a massive spending bill wa...
I would argue Standard & Poor's downgraded us because the lack of the deal, the agreement addressing how serious this si...
The most recent figures paint a stark picture of the U.S. economy.
One of the key assertions in this report is that the stimulus somehow destroyed a million jobs.
If these tax loopholes were so bad, so terrible, so needed, why didn't the previous Congress just 10 months ago take car...
Instead of rushing to pass additional spending, we need to ensure that any new legislation is carefully crafted and actu...
No matter how you look at the stimulus, it has simply failed to live up to the administration's promises.
Yet, over two and a half years later, 1.7 million fewer Americans have jobs at a cost of $825 billion to taxpayers.
With an exercise like this, you always have to worry about the problem of cherry picking.
Building on what my colleague, Congressman Clyburn, just said and what Co-Chair Hensarling talked about earlier in terms...
I have some concerns about the current law baseline because I don't think it is realistic.
I want to thank you all for your help today and the help you have given us up to this point.
This is something, if you can get back to us on that, it would be very helpful.
Our success or failure will depend in large measure on your good work.
Yeah, I am talking about not lowering the tax, so it would be revenue-neutral, so there would be no reduction in the tax...
So I think it is a great point that the economy is going to drive so much of this.
