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 most irrational.
We will be costing the taxpayer money under the guise of savings.
I agree that entitlement reform has to be part of the mix.
I would not have been here if there had not been a student loan program.
I actually think the overwhelming majority of Americans would believe, if rather than looking at the dramatic fall off t...
deficit reduction needs to be done in a balanced way, and includes a responsible mix of spending cuts and new revenue fr...
we are going to be under tight fiscal constraints for as far as the eye can see, and we just do not have room for ineffi...
I would point out to all my colleagues that actually the President's budget is the only one of the three budgets between...
I would rather it get lower than that, but it is in the right direction.
this is not as much an immediate problem, but an intermediate problem and needs to have phase-ins.
we cannot cut our way or we cannot tax our way simply to prosperity. We also have to have a growth agenda.