Isn't that the crux of the problem? Are the patients the ones that are charging doctors $120,000 for insurance?
The failure of your Department to advance clean, reasonably priced nuclear power has hurt our Nation.
My concern is that ever-bigger government, however you fund it, leads to slower economic growth and lesser job creation ...
we ought to really equate and think about the total tax burden by looking at the total amount of spending.
I happen to share the view that we should make structural changes.
We cannot look at the deficit alone; we have to look at the tax rates and at the spending.
If we could have some new kind of limitation other than the statutory debt limit, that would give some underlying confid...
I think $100 billion in near-term spending cuts would be very useful.
America's vast proven energy reserves that we have are not being unlocked, and they are not being acted on apparently in...
I am willing to vote to raise the debt limit. But I am only willing to do that if we are going to make the cuts in spend...
I have to share the concern and disappointment that several of my colleagues have already expressed about what I see as ...
The President is now calling for another--basically a stimulus bill, $50 billion to build high-speed rail, which I think...
under no circumstances should the United States ever even get close to defaulting on the debt that we have issued.
The refusal to drill domestically has cost tens of thousands of high-paying jobs and billions of dollars in lost revenue...
I applaud the Congress for doing that.
My suspicion is it is on a trajectory that continues to rise higher after that.
We thought it was a bit of a heroic assumption to assume we paid for it over the whole period.
I think that is quite an assumption to make given the circumstances.