Closing the door on that slush fund, I believe, will achieve real savings as we move into the out years.
I think what the president has proposed is that we want to achieve a net of $1.5 trillion in additional revenue, and doing it in a way that ...
I dare say that Republicans and Democrats alike agree that the sequester is not the best way to achieve that deficit reduction.
The Simpson-Bowles commission, the bipartisan commission, set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their 10 year window.
This is not about the politics of envy or class warfare, this about how do we solve a deficit problem in a way that asks for shared responsi...
It seems perfectly reasonable, and I think an ordinary American watching this proceeding would agree that you should be able to count the ef...
Ninety-eight percent of our Republican colleagues have signed a pledge saying they won't close one special interest tax loophole for the pur...
This isn't just my opinion and that of these bipartisan groups--economists like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have also argued again...
that balance is what our Republican colleagues have objected to
I think after your testimony in the Senate yesterday that you are already battle-tested.
I think what we see here in the president's budget is a responsible approach