I do not agree with changes that I think will, in effect, break up Medicare and put more and more seniors at the mercy of the present private insurance system.
I have been for and I continue to be for giving the States far more flexibility in the way they run the programs.
I don't believe that.
We can balance a budget in 7 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, without having dangerously low levels ...
We could balance the budget, literally, in 15 minutes tomorrow afternoon.
Let us do it.
The issue here is over the policies involving Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environment...
I am for balancing the budget in 7 years, but I want to protect the fundamental priorities of the American people.
We have bent over backwards to reach good faith, honorable, principled compromise.
We can balance the budget.
The current welfare system is broken and must be replaced, for the sake of the taxpayers who pay for it and the people w...