Karen Thurman: “Right, and the fact of the matter is that within that there is also the situation we are in now with Medicare and…”

The gentlewoman brings up an excellent point, and it is a point that needs to be talked about even more. As we just did the tax bill, and we are watching all these dollars kind of go out there right now, which legitimately we all agree…

Social Security is a very important issue, and certainly I think she laid out to the public what is happening here in Congress. And I agree with her that we should not be spending the Social Security money on anything other than Social…

I first would say to the women who came from New Jersey here to speak to the body, we heard so eloquently today somebody talk about 'we the people,' and this being 'the people's place of business,' and so we do need to be paying attention…

I went home last week, and the first thing I was called upon to talk about was the repeal of the death tax. Somebody sent out a press release saying that I voted against the repeal of the death tax, and I did. What they failed to mention…