John Spratt: “Mr. Garrett. I thank the chairman and I thank the witness, Dr. Romer, for being here today.”

If we have entitlements that we already can't pay for, shouldn't we not be adding new entitlements?

I want to thank Congresswoman Gwen Moore for suggesting this hearing and for her role in bringing it about and putting it together.

The moral of the story is, if the leaders of both parties don't want a commission to succeed, if the leaders of both parties aren't willing to put both parts of the budget, taxes and spending, on the table, the chances that it is going to…

Shouldn't we stop creating new programs, now agencies, new commissions and new discretionary spending?