Because it's a lot of revenue and it's revenue to the federal government.

In my view this budget represents a balanced and forward leaning proposal.

It invests in public lands for the next generation of Americans to enjoy.

debt service with our current $18 trillion in debt will exceed total defense spending or total domestic discretionary spending in 10 years, and that is not a good business plan for our country.

I would like to make sure that we deal in a perfect world with currency manipulation, but currency manipulation to one could appear as monetary policy to another.

One of the things that has been absent from this discussion today has been... our work and need to still address our own fiscal policies.

Mr. President, I rise tonight to urge Congress to quit playing political games with our national security. It is time to have a clean Homeland Security funding bill on the floor of the Senate to be debated. We are only days away from a…

I appreciate the administration putting forward the AUMF. I think it is our responsibility under our Constitution to wrestle with it.

I would like to see us put a timeframe on 2001, despite, as you point out, that there is an enduring threat.

We have to understand that all our lives, the danger, the uncertainty, the need for alertness, for effort, that discipline will be upon us.

We need to finance that in a sustainable way. Let us finance it by a carbon tax, which casts a broader net than a gasoline tax.

It makes a lot more sense to take the proven, modern approach to tax reform, an approach that I would summarize in a sentence: let us give everybody in America the chance to get ahead.

One of the ways I think we can get people seriously interested in reform is just to tell them, we could get rid of this mess.

There truly is a bipartisan window now for tax reform.

I think right now it is sort of seen as root canal work and just kind of an academic exercise.

You cannot have big league economic growth with little league infrastructure.

Maybe we will generate a few billion dollars worth of sales.

I'm encouraged by the rule that you all have put out to stop companies from using subsidiaries to dodge the royalty payments.