We're spending three times as much as we're taking in, and I'm just saying that as politicians, we have difficulty aligning those things.

I think it's worked out very well for us.

I thank you for calling the hearing, and I look forward to listening to our witnesses.

I do think the environment here is moving more towards tax reform that doesn't incent, that actually does away with many of the $1.2 trillion in tax breaks that we give each year.

If you look at where we are today, where in today's dollars the average American family making average wages puts about $119,000 into the Medicare program over their lifetime in today's dollars, and that same family takes out of Medicare…

This is a massive, massive problem, one that the Finance Committee and others here all need to be involved in dealing with.

This is a very massive problem. I mean, people are not thinking in advance of those kind of things down the road.

this last March, 64 Senators--32 on each side--wrote a letter to the President asking for real tax reform and real entitlement reform. I think most of us know today's exercise is a political exercise. It is not intended to deal with…

today I rise to speak about the subject our Nation is focused on as the Supreme Court takes up some of the constitutional provisions of the health care law that was passed a couple of years ago in this body. Obviously, the courts will…

I would look forward to working with you in a way that really is just a technical corrections bill and not some political statement.

in December, with the distinguished leadership of the Senators from Vermont and South Carolina, we passed the National Guard Empowerment Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act with truly bipartisan support, as…

I do not believe there is a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem.