The best thing that Congress can do to improve the service that taxpayers receive from the IRS is to approve the President's budget request in totality.

I assume there is a little bit of time to make a couple of comments as we are waiting. I would commend the chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, for she and the ranking Member have done an excellent job of moving us…

using natural gas to increase American manufacturing output is twice as valuable to the overall economy as just jobs in general

this is a big deal here. We have this great new resource for us in America that's giving us an edge

I don't know why we wouldn't wait for that to happen if we want to make sure we're doing this the right way.

We know jobs are created when we build export facilities, right?

It was because of an arrangement that asked those at the top to pay a little more and also to invest in education and innovation and, basically, a middle class economy.

$1.5 trillion in spending through the tax code seems to me a worthy place for us to scrutinize.

I think there is a general sense that during the recession more people apply for disability and, therefore, more people are receiving disability.

Senator Roy Blunt and I have been leading the effort to make sure that we are doing to more equalize and understand serious mental health issues.

I would just argue this is more than about numbers, and right now what I am most concerned about--we have eliminated two-thirds of our annual deficit in the last few years.

What people in Detroit want to know is that there are public lights that work and roads that work and schools that work and safe neighborhoods so that police and fire come when you call.

The House has voted over 50 times to repeal health reform.

In my judgment, the short term is a phony crisis.

I would suggest that because we have a value of supporting education as a country, it does involve the public sector.

Let us give it all to those at the top, two different large trickle-down tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans hoping it would trickle down to everybody else.

We would be out of debt right now, $12 trillion, because different priorities.

I could not agree with you more that the only way that works is to stop talking about trickle-down economics and actually do something that makes sure the next steps are laser focused on the middle class.

What I get frustrated about is that we see things that have worked during the Clinton years, asking folks to pay a little bit more, we balanced the budget, 222 million jobs created.

I have to say that as somebody who is a mental health advocate, I am glad since the 1980s we recognized that there are diseases above the neck as well as below the neck.

We should do what works and we should look at the past to know what works.

Social Security is something that is an insurance program that everyone pays into, and it is probably the best deal in town.

Thank you very much to my friend and colleague and leader from California. I first want to say thank you to Senators Murkowski and Cantwell who have worked so hard with Senator Boxer moving forward a process that, until Thursday night, was…

Let me just stress again, as you know, this is an absolutely critical issue in terms of making sure that American workers and the American people are getting a good deal on trade agreements, and so far I have not seen anything, any…

The key is to export our products, not our jobs. That is the fundamental debate: exporting products, not jobs.