I just say respectfully I hope that you and your colleagues who are the best in the business will come up with more aggressive, more immediate approaches.
You all gave $700 billion--first installment $350 billion, perhaps the vote tonight on $350 million more--to these financial institutions.
I was thrilled that Chairman Baucus, who has done very good work on this health reform issue, has also put out in his White Paper, a very co...
Democrats have fought--and, in my view, correctly so--to get everybody covered. It is the moral thing to do, and it is also the economic thi...
We ran the numbers, Dr. Elmendorf, with the CBO figures. You all indicated that we are going to spend $2.5 trillion this year on health care...
Market economics has always been about chicken-and-egg. You make investment decisions, and if they are the right ones, promising things happ...
the Obama administration, to its credit--Senator Conrad and I have been hearing encouraging news on this point--wants to do that
We have got a lot of heavy lifting left to do.
I want to commend you and Senator Gregg on putting together this panel.
How would you feel about having your health care taxed? about 107 percent say, 'No way,' usually accompanied by some pretty choice curse wor...
It is important to be cautious about the idea of going out in this health reform debate and spending vast sums of new money right out of the...