I think to say that there is an exact number based on a historical norm kind of misses the fact that there is this large cohort moving through the system that we are going to have to make some tough choices about.

I am glad you said in your budget for the first time that you ought to not use these preference reductions or loophole closures for the budget deficit generally but for revenue-neutral tax reform.

The notion that we can continue careening down this path of record debt... is really dangerous.

70 percent of the benefit of a lower rate on the corporate side is going to go to who? The workers.

We are in a deep fiscal hole. We have never experienced this as a country.

Having record deficits and debt does have a negative impact on the economy.

We do have the highest rate among our trading partners, the highest in the industrialized world.

I applaud some things in this budget. One is the fact that you are willing to take one small step and talk about the entitlement programs.

I do think that is what the American people want us to do.

This is about those workers, again, middle-class Americans who are trying to keep their job or get a job and have decent pay when their pay has gone down almost 4,500 bucks over the past several years on average.

I would like to speak on the amendment, if I could. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized.

Earlier this week, my colleague Senator Blumenthal spoke about an amendment we are offering to the Violence Against Women Act, and it is an amendment that has to do with child sex trafficking. I am pleased to join him in offering this…