The trust funds are an accounting device. They do not mean the same thing as Webster's Dictionary.
After national security, I think the most important issue Congress and our Nation faces today is this issue of our debt and budgets that are...
I think that this cannot be the last generation of Americans... that they are not going to have an opportunity for the same standard of livi...
We have met the enemy and it is us.
Nobody is going to bail out America. We have to solve our own problem, and we need to get started soon.
We can be the first republic to stand the test of time. But we have to change course because we will not succeed unless we do.
I am fed up with political messaging. We have it all the time on both sides of the aisle.
A final vote on the recommendations would occur before the 111th Congress adjourns.
Our challenge represents the serious structural deficits that are large, known, and growing.
We are out of control and we are reaching a precipice, that if we do not take definitive action soon, we could pass a tipping point.
We are not going to vote to extend the debt limit beyond the $12.1 trillion it is at now unless such a commission, such a process to deal wi...