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I do not believe that we should look for offsets. I am not an advocate of offsetting in order to pay for this disaster. What we have is I think a situation where we are responding generously, and we ought, in my judgment, to pay for it…
The fact of the matter is, we are not going to collect enough money to pay the bills and, thus, what we have to do is sell Treasury bonds. We borrow from the already too small pool of savings, restricting the growth of the economy…
I assure my friends from California that I have no desire to slow down this supplemental bill. I have no opposition at all to the supplemental. What the Senator from Nevada said, I think, is quite accurate. This dire emergency supplemental…
All the concerns that I had for a heavy-handed approach from the Federal Government have been resolved, I must say. I appreciate very much the Labor Committee's hard work on this, and the administration's hard work on this. I remain…
I hope your recent comments about bringing a congressional reform bill to the floor this spring, truly reflect a commitment to jump starting our reform efforts. The recommendations from the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress…