the Speaker's latest version of the mother of all sequesters, his threat that the United States would not meet its financial obligations.
We all agree that we have a budget challenge, and a deficit and debt challenge--especially over the long term.
Unfortunately, our Republican colleagues continue to oppose that balanced approach.
In an era of divided government, we need to be able to make the difficult compromises necessary to get the job done.
that would devastate the economy. And even talking about the United States for the first time in its history not meeting...
There is no substitute for making the tough policy decisions to reduce the deficit in a balanced, credible way.
the math.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me, again, thank all the witnesses for their testimony.
I dare say that you would be hard pressed to get the individuals--all of the individuals who put their names on this to ...
I don't think that changes in the economy are things that we don't expect.
Those numbers change every year. They change every year, we have seen them change just in the last year.