One of the things that becomes pretty clear...most of the ideas coming from the Republican side result in some kind of increased shifting of risk to senior citizens.

Republicans have already decided where they want to put the burden of the cuts that we all know we have to make in the budget. They want to put them on the least fortunate of our country. Let me read something from The Washington Post this…

The richest 1 percent of Americans now control one-third of our Nation's income, 120 percent more than they did 30 years ago. CEOs now earn hundreds of times what the average worker does. Wall Street profits are up 720 percent since 2007…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment would essentially destroy efforts to put an end to the damage that is wrought by mountaintop removal. Now, many of my colleagues who are not familiar with mountaintop removal, what happens is you take mountains…

We are involved in probably the most important thing that this body does on a year-to-year basis--figuring out how to spend taxpayers' money. The budget process is more than taking dollars from one place and spending them in another. It's…

I think the administration has done a terrific job of trying to strike a balance of trying to get our house in order.

It is simply short-sighted to think we can try to balance our budget through cuts in domestic discretionary spending alone.

The President's budget moves in the right direction by putting an end to taxpayer dollars going to subsidies for big oil companies.

The President's approach stands in stark contrast to the House Republicans' plan being debated on the House floor today.

Deep cuts now will not create a single job; in fact, Mark Zandi and other economists have warned against deep spending cuts that would put thousands of American jobs at risk.

for the past two years I have opposed the Administration's proposal to repeal the Last In, First Out (LIFO) accounting method for tax purposes.

At a time of huge deficits, we cannot afford to ask our children to pay for tax breaks for the folks at the very top.