we are now reduced to the point of actually hearing, no disrespect, Mr. Barker, about reptiles and how intrusive Federal...
They say, what about them in a recession, what about the secretary who is only making $50,000?
We saw what Standard and Poor's did.
In a day and age when China is spending 9 percent of their GDP on infrastructure, we are spending less than half of a pe...
At some point, we need to say, wait a minute, let us get this right.
Let me tell you what worries me.
At some point, there is no one in this room who, if you had a house, you would repair it and maintain it.
Government does have a role. Private business has a role.
Their concern was that there were Members of Congress that were going around talking about not raising the debt ceiling.
At some point, we have to say wait a minute, let us get off this merry go round and begin to create jobs for people.
We are paying less taxes, percentage of GDP, than we have in a long time.
To say that we cannot afford to make these investments right now when our economy needs it most and get 14 million peopl...
One of the greatest threats to our national security is our failure to properly educate every single one of our children...
I think we need to do both.
If that were to lapse and that would mean that working people had less disposable income, especially at this point in ti...
Isn't that right?
the last time that our budget was balanced was back in the 2001, 2000 time period.
we have to increase revenues beyond current policy if we want to avoid very deep cuts.