Don Nickles: “With this additional money, it is a 40.6-percent increase. For everybody who says we want to balance the budget, how do…”

If somebody is activated and they go to Afghanistan or Iraq, don't they receive full health care costs without paying the 28 percent?

I led the effort to repeal the windfall profits tax. We finally did.

law makers must carefully distinguish between the need for tax credits which may operate as subsidies, compared to more favored tax deductions which are expensed as part of ordinary business operations.

I am happy to debate my colleague, or any colleague, on the budget. We spent several days debating the budget. I am more than happy to debate it. I will tell my colleague that we basically have assumed a freeze in nondefense, non-homeland…