We have the weakest recovery since the end of World War II.
We are in a danger zone, and there are many ways for us to get out of it, but this budget does not get us out of it.
Tax increases equals spending cuts, and you have a balanced plan.
I resent the fact that people suggest that those of us who have a different view of how to help poor people somehow do not care about them.
Federal Government debt is now-- gross debt_is 103 percent.
We can remove the debt cloud, the drag that this debt has over us, and put us on the path to prosperity.
What this budget provides is the old-time Democratic religion of tax and spend.
We have no higher obligation as lawmakers than to protect the financial security of the Republic.
I believe we have to have an economy that is growing, creating prosperity, that we need to help poor people get jobs and move forward in the...
Our gross Federal debt after rising $6 trillion in the last 4 years will rise another $9 trillion by 2023.
As the law requires, the Senate not only has a legal but a moral duty to present the taxpayers with a plan.