John Spratt: “Well, in 1995 and in 1996 we had better and better bottom lines because we had a PAYGO rule, and we had discretionary…”

All of these have contracts for ultimate waste disposal with the federal government?

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.

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…