John Spratt: “I respectfully request the committee not only provide for full funding of the BRAC recommendations but also provide…”

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.

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?

I want to welcome everyone to our hearing this morning on The Social Safety Net: Impact of the Recession and of the Recovery Act.