Even with tax increases, it balloons to more than $700 billion a year.

I concur with the chairman, and I have an enormous amount of respect for the ranking member.

I am glad you mentioned health care, because I agree with you that it is the principal driver of the deficits and the debt.

So only in Washington and only from the Office of Management and Budget could we see the gross Federal debt go from $19 trillion today to... even with $3 trillion worth of tax increases, $26 trillion in the 10-year window.

But your attempts to sugarcoat this budget and its projections for the future on behalf of the administration that I know you work for is just a sad abdication of responsibility for the challenges we are facing as a country.

Now, when you look at where we have come from, the $10 trillion to $20 trillion, that is a huge deficit increase--or huge debt increase, and no one gets a pat on the back for that.

I know that the President wants to raise a lot of taxes. What I find incomprehensible as a Member of Congress...

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