That is what we are doing now is alerting everyone to the contents of this reconciliation bill which is hanging in the wings, pretending under the name of ``deficit reduction'' to be about fiscal responsibility when it is anything but that.
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I want to thank Congresswoman Gwen Moore for suggesting this hearing and for her role in bringing it about and putting it together.
I think it is a bit irresponsible to at least articulate to the American people, to the Congress, why you think we need a new policy direction.
If we have entitlements that we already can't pay for, shouldn't we not be adding new entitlements?
When President Obama was sworn into office at the beginning of this year, the economy was in deep contraction and jobs were being lost at a rate of 741,000 per month.
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