David Schweikert: “My understanding is the way you did that then, you did not do a cost-benefit, go through those mechanics?”

For every dollar of tax collections we get next year, what are we going to spend? For every dollar of tax collections we take in next year, we are going to spend $1.43. This one number right here should scare the hell out of people…

Mr. Speaker, we had an incident today where the Budget Committee was inviting Members to come in and sort of give our priorities. My comments to the Budget Committee--I brought them some work that has been done by the Joint Economic…

I promise you at least this one. I think I have the half an hour. I am going to try not to use all of it, and I will try to slow down some of the speaking. Madam Speaker, I had a couple of odds and ends and then some basic optimism on one…

Mr. Speaker, we are going to try a couple of things tonight, and I am going to try to do this as efficiently as possible. I hate doing it this way, but part of what I am going to do tonight is respond to basically a little bit--actually, a…