Tim Kaine

Speaker Boehner has talked about how it would 'hollow our military.'

Well, obviously, getting that system right is key.

As I have said before, not every veteran will be affected by these invisible wounds. But when a veteran has the courage to stand up and ask for help, the VA must be there every single time.

But do we count that in our, you know, as we measure college graduation or as the international norms measure college completion and they rank us 14th in the world, are they measuring people who do not go to community college?

We have not had a race to the top type competition in the higher education space, and that is what we are proposing in this year's budget.

You want Pell Grants? You want Stafford loans? Show us that you are doing things to control the costs.

They have had to eliminate a classroom. They have cut slots for children. And they have let staff go.

I certainly agree, we should all be working together to tackle our long-term budget challenges.

I will also continue working to end the terrible epidemic of military sexual assault in the services.

I think that is ideology, not economics.

The sooner we lock into place a plan that gives confidence to the whole economy...

I do not understand why this is a time when one would want to reduce GDP by half a percent.

I do not think by putting a good-faith discussion about is there a more accurate way to calculate the CPI on the table that you are trying to harm veterans or harm anyone.

I think that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit.

I appreciate the elimination of the sequester because, as you pointed out, it was not Congress' intent that it should go into effect.

The sequester moves in the wrong direction. The sequester takes too much out of the economy in a ham-handed way that was designed to be bad policy and it is bad policy.

The House budget pursues an extreme, cuts-only approach, slashing our investments in education and infrastructure.

An essential part of any agreement will be asking the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share.

The House budget doubles down on protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Democrats have consistently shown we are willing to do so, and now it is up to Republicans to join us at the table ready to compromise.

We should also address the tens of billions of dollars lost each year to offshore tax abuse.

I hope Republicans are now prepared to tell us their ideas for a bipartisan path forward.

Mainly used by a relatively small group of mostly higher income individuals.

Republican leaders, who are seemingly rejecting any effort at compromise, will need to put our families and our economy above partisan ideology.

The statistic is that CBO has lowered its estimate of Federal spending for Medicare and Medicaid to such a degree that spending for 2020, one year, just one year, is now $200 billion lower than CBO thought back in 2010.