John Spratt: “Failed Republican economic policies had brought the financial system dangerously close to a complete meltdown and had…”

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

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…

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.

Let me get something clear. There are a hundred and three operating nuclear reactors, commercial reactors in operation generating spent fuel waste.