if we fritter this time away, if we don't deal with the core problem, which is spending no matter what you try to do on revenues, then we will have lost this opportunity we have to get our fiscal house in order while we have low interest…

the Tax Code is patently unfair.

When Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled his budget for fiscal year 2012, it called for repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, turning Medicaid into a block grant.

Hard choices will have to be made on how to reduce Federal spending, but ending overpayments to New York's State-operated developmental centers should not be a hard choice at all.

I appreciate the opportunity to share my favorable recommendation for Ketanji Brown Jackson. I know she is clearly qualified.

My praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal.

Our entitlement programs--in particular government spending on health care--are the core drivers of the debt.

You are saying that the higher marginal tax rates go, the less output in economic growth we get.

I think the 10 year note went down as much as 1.5.

I think it is very constructive that we have what we call an alternative fiscal scenario because that sort of more reflects current policies.

Growing debt would increase the probability of a sudden fiscal crisis, during which investors would lose confidence in the government's ability to manage its budget, and the government would thereby lose its ability to borrow at affordable…