Sequestration was set up to be so stupid that no rational group of people would ever let it happen. Yet it is happening.
I 100 percent believe... you have got to grow this budget.
It is on us. We have got to show a willingness to listen to each other and compromise.
I believe that it is going to require revenues and entitlement reforms.
The right answer for this problem is dialogue and compromise.
Our percent of GDP investing in infrastructure is pitifully small.
We are looking at the top-line number as if it was as rational set of cuts, when in effect this was set up to be the mos...
a critical component of a balanced approach is ensuring that the burden of deficit reduction is not borne solely by the ...
the idea that we are ever going to go back to a sustainable fiscal circumstance with anything around the 18.6 or even 19...
this is not as much an immediate problem, but an intermediate problem and needs to have phase-ins.
I do believe an investment component in a budget is a responsible and reasonable thing.