"Well good luck with it, because it's never generated more than a 17½ percent, percentage on tax revenues as a percentage of our GDP over 50 years. Therefore, I think you're being dishonest with the Am..."
"It needs to be fixed. It needs to be saved."
"This is a Committee that in the time I have been here, we have covered more terrain--we really can't legislate through it, but we can talk about a lot of issues."
"I have got a bill out there, the JOBS Act, with Senator Kaine that would allow Pell grants to be used for this type of training and certification."
"We are currently running nearly $1.5 trillion in deficits each year, and that is roughly 30 percent of our budget."
"I think it is even more important for these solutions to probably be crafted in the States where the rubber meets the road."
"We are transitioning everywhere across America, where we obviously got an underpaid workforce."
"I believe Congress should be smart on the entire discussion of climate, including Republicans."
"I do not think the SEC should be one of them."
"I have been clear that when it comes to large corporations and the ability to effectively bargain with them, there is no replacement for a union."
"Senator Sanders and I have talked about that. It is a broken industry."
"But our biggest issue in the Midwest would not be wildfires. We don't have them generally. It would be invasive species."