House Republicans are not interested in fiscal responsibility.

These extremist House Republicans are demanding massive, across-the-board spending cuts.

So serious conversations about reducing the national debt should start with rebalancing our tax system, not start with how to hurt families.

So I am just trying to think through what this means in terms of job losses.

We need to raise the debt ceiling. Without conditions.

I want you to imagine if your Federal funding is cut by 78 percent.

Year after year, the Republican playbook has been simple--more help for their rich buddies and more economic pain for everyone else.

We could make the tax system a whole lot fairer as part of what we are doing here.

The United States has been underinvesting in childcare for decades.

So the job cuts lead to more job cuts, in your case.

Here is another. Tax the profits that giant multinational corporations hide overseas right now, helping level the playing field for domestic businesses and joining Europe and others in enacting a global corporate minimum tax.