We are not going to vote to extend the debt limit beyond the $12.1 trillion it is at now unless such a commission, such ...
We are headed for a fiscal cliff and we need to change course before we go over it.
At some point, that has to stop, and it will.
We are out of control and we are reaching a precipice, that if we do not take definitive action soon, we could pass a ti...
A final vote on the recommendations would occur before the 111th Congress adjourns.
I am fed up with political messaging. We have it all the time on both sides of the aisle.
We are negative cash flow in the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
Nobody is going to bail out America. We have to solve our own problem, and we need to get started soon.
We have met the enemy and it is us.
The economic troubles have led most every family I know to tighten their belt, to put some money away to save some, not ...
We can be the first republic to stand the test of time. But we have to change course because we will not succeed unless ...
I think that this cannot be the last generation of Americans... that they are not going to have an opportunity for the s...
After national security, I think the most important issue Congress and our Nation faces today is this issue of our debt ...
The trust funds are an accounting device. They do not mean the same thing as Webster's Dictionary.
I regularly remind my colleagues that when we established the Department, we initiated the Federal Government's largest ...
Thank you.
I promise you that if we get that and the need is dollars and cents, I would like to work with you.
Did you know I am Ranking Member on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee and am very interested in making s...
