"Under Republican leadership, all the committees are holding these hearings to try to sell what they couldn't sell 6 months ago, and that is a tax bill that disproportionately benefits people at the ve..."
"There was a report that was just released that shows that while people at the top of the income scale, the top 1 percent on average get $57,000 in tax relief, while a middle-income family in Michigan ..."
"I am also curious as to why the anecdote of $250 billion going to CEOs and wealthy shareholders through stock buybacks isn't being mentioned."
"The focus of my remarks this morning will be on one particular set of issues, and it has to do with the Federal Government's role in the health, the fiscal and social and economic health of America's ..."
"There is a clear public, and I think national interest, in the health of America's cities."
"The integrity of those communities are really challenged; and there is a national interest in this."
"Providing more debt opportunities for those places really does not solve the problem."
"So I ask the gentleman."
"the condition that these communities face, in some cases it is the result of their own mismanagement for sure, or their lack of quality leadership."
"the decisions that we make in terms of the way we invest in infrastructure, for example, can have a very positive impact on a region, but sometimes has an unintended negative consequence on a particul..."
"I think we need to have a debate in this country about what is the Federal responsibility to sustain a lifestyle in many areas that is not sustainable."
"I do not think the divide in this country--and other people are saying that more recently--I do not think it is Conservative/Liberal; I do not think it is Republican/Democrat; I think it is urban/rura..."