Pat Ryan

This budget deals with the world as it is now and as it will be in the future.

The longer we delay fundamental reform, the longer we delay a real recovery, because our national debt is weighing down our country like an anchor.

The point I am trying to make is, you are already kind of reneging on this promise, and the biggest tax increase proposal you have in your budget does that as well.

As Ranking Member Van Hollen noted, during the Clinton Administration I helped negotiate the groundbreaking agreement with Congress to do just that.

Do you not think that is kind of unfair? Do you not that that puts those successful small businesses at a competitive disadvantage?

A complex code does not help anybody but the well-connected.

I would like to learn more about the president's proposals today.

It includes a powerful jobs and growth plan.

Their budget calls for a $1.1 trillion tax hike to pay for nearly $1 trillion in new spending.

The goal of our budget on the Republican side was to create, is to create, the greatest amount of opportunity for the greatest amount of success for the greatest number of people to return and to expand the American dream.

The President's budget is a disappointment--because it's a missed opportunity.

We cannot keep spending money we just do not have. We need a new approach.

We cannot simply dwell on our differences. We have to move forward.

I do not want to dwell on this because I am putting myself on a clock as well so we can get to everybody else here.

The president's plan is to take more from families to spend more in Washington.

Our hearts and our prayers go out to the victims of the terrorist attack in Boston.

We offered a plan to balance the budget. We offered a plan that balances it in 10 years.

We need a new approach in Washington to meet the country's most pressing challenges.

Do you not think that difference is discriminatory? Do you not think that puts them at a competitive disadvantage?

We can't keep spending money we don't have.

A different starting point on income or different starting point on threshold, on percentage of the premiums that the person bears themselves?

Okay. A different starting point on income or different starting point on threshold, on percentage of the premiums that the person bears themselves?

It has huge budget effects in the outyears.

the difference in our budget approaches were we make sure that all the Medicare money stays in Medicare.

But that was in your budget last year as well.