it would be an utterly empty exercise around here not to get the votes to actually pass things.
the budget as is, in my judgment, just as it has been written, probably can't pass here.
This budget extends the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for everybody earning below $250,000 a year.
I have described the President's budget as a 'good beginning.'
there is going to have to be flexibility on how the funds are used.
this budget, as it is presently constructed, passes on to our children a Nation which they will not be able to afford and which will potenti...
I have a lot of hope that we can find consensus on this issue.
we are essentially putting on our children's backs a debt which they can never get out from underneath.
I think what we have done is destroyed the ability of the Congress to come together.
If we had not done the first TARP, we would have faced an outright economic collapse.
I believe that build-up of debt fundamentally threatens the economic security of this country. I believe it in my bones.