Rep. Rahm Emanuel: “I do appreciate your conversion on the road to Damascus as it relates to fiscal responsibility and spending. And I do…”

First of all, it wasn't part of welfare reform. Welfare reform had a 1-year transitional for Medicaid. It wasn't part of that, which is a point you made. Second is, SCHIP was so successful, while the rest of the population actually had an…

And the way this was discovered was on a worker who was laid off with 10,000 employees, went to go collect unemployment insurance and was told no, you don't have the money for that because you didn't pay insurance. He said no, I work for…

It's ironic that it took 4 years to close this offshore loophole. But we are shutting it down and paying for all these other benefits to ensure that this company and other companies like it who set up in the Cayman Islands do not go around…

No conversation about trade is ever about trade. It's about the standard of living of the middle class of this country. Globalization could be a good thing if you have an agenda, and just trade alone is not an agenda to make sure that the…