I know it is tempting to get into the usual partisan food fight and score points.

There are just far too few in our society and we have a lot of people in our country who are hurting because of that.

I would bring to your attention--though I am certain that you are aware of it--that when--although this is the case actually with both--it is not just the person who is suffering either from an addiction or from a mental health issue, but…

It is not overstating the situation to call it a crisis.

But there has to be a better of balancing civil liberties with the desire of a family to get love and care to one that desperately needs it.

I certainly know that the firefighters and teachers who live in my neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, they would love to pay an 8 percent tax rate.

the average effective rate among those 400 that you mentioned is currently 8 percent?

The idea that it is only the debt ceiling drama that is needed for us to talk about deficit and debt is not accurate.

I will just say briefly, I am happy to work with you or anyone else on this issue in good faith.

I think the idea that I have come up with, it is not inherently liberal or conservative or Democratic or Republican, it would give Treasury secretaries of both parties this authority.

Kevin McCarthy is a coward. He will do whatever it takes to be speaker. It’s almost pathetic.

We cannot have any tolerance for those who are in elected office or otherwise who encourage and incite political violence.