It seems perfectly reasonable, and I think an ordinary American watching this proceeding would agree that you should be ...
The Simpson-Bowles commission, the bipartisan commission, set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their 10 year window.
Ninety-eight percent of our Republican colleagues have signed a pledge saying they won't close one special interest tax ...
I think what the president has proposed is that we want to achieve a net of $1.5 trillion in additional revenue, and doi...
I dare say that Republicans and Democrats alike agree that the sequester is not the best way to achieve that deficit red...
Closing the door on that slush fund, I believe, will achieve real savings as we move into the out years.
This is not about the politics of envy or class warfare, this about how do we solve a deficit problem in a way that asks...
I think after your testimony in the Senate yesterday that you are already battle-tested.
I think what we see here in the president's budget is a responsible approach
the question is not whether to reduce the deficits, the question has been how do we reduce the deficit
this is a responsible budget that begins to turn the corner in terms of the deficits and is very important in terms of j...
that balance is what our Republican colleagues have objected to
This isn't just my opinion and that of these bipartisan groups--economists like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ha...
why should we fund two different agencies that aren't obviously communicating with each other on an issue of this import...
We should not try to solve our budget problems on the backs of middle class Federal workers while we refuse to ask the w...
If the ball is hidden and nobody knows, then that is not going to fulfill the objective.
I am from Maryland, as you know, and very focused on the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay watershed.
Our objective here is to have a rule where there is disclosure that brings about the confidence of the American public.
