I don’t view it as a zero sum, but I do view it as a changing of the narrative...

Social Security, Medicare, and veterans' benefit programs represent an agreement between citizens and the federal government.

The passage of last summer's Budget Control Act sent a strong, bipartisan message to the country that we are serious about reducing our deficit.

Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefit programs represent an ironclad agreement between citizens and the federal government, a promise that can never be broken.

Simply put, veterans and seniors are not the cause of our deficits, so we should not look to them to solve our current crisis.

For every $1 billion we spend on wastewater infrastructure, we can create approximately 28,000 jobs in communities across America.

I come from Pennsylvania, in a State and a region of the country where this is an incredibly important issue.

While the federal government is exempt from the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, private collection agencies are not.

I am one of the cosigners of this letter that expressed our concerns of waste and fraud, dated September 28th.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is something that shows that our side of the aisle is very concerned about this taxpayer money and that it not be wasted by examples as I just gave you.

It is imperative that the committee continues the tradition of excellence and innovation in research in the National Institutes of Health by agreeing to the President's request of the $32 billion budget for NIH.