This committee will write a budget and we need to get it through the Senate by mid-April.

I do not know of a single Democratic member of the Senate or House who has blocked us from going to a budget conference.

I would welcome making the Tax Code fairer and simpler and having a more unified base, but certainly not if the revenues is meant to go to pay for more spending.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the right way to set our priorities as a nation.

If left unchanged, the President's health care law could deal a devastating blow to the Federal budget.

But there is no way that the world is going to stay the same if the United States plays a lesser role in the world.

Chairman Ryan was absolutely correct; much of it is skewed towards the wealthiest Americans.

A very specific claim in an academic paper cited frequently by many of my Republican colleagues on this committee to make the case for short-term austerity was found to be flawed.

I have long believed that the case for austerity during times of economic weakness has been fundamentally flawed.

here we are today, days away from a possible government shutdown which could affect hundreds of thousands of workers' jobs.

It is not as harmful as uncertainty leading up to a debt default.

If you spend more than historical averages and you have taxes and revenue that are less than historic averages, you are going to have a challenge.

Our work in the 1990s proved that calling on the wealthy to pay their fair share is not incompatible with strong economic growth.

Their obstructionism not only defies common sense, but it is dangerous.

I always wonder about the fantastic graduates of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice Academy... but I worry that we do not count them.

I am looking forward to discussing this further today and I am certainly going to keep fighting to make sure we are moving our students and our schools forward, not backward.

We are not going to negotiate over the debt limit.

It is something I would like to work on.

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

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.

It is only Congress that can appropriate money, and Congress is not doing the job. It is just outrageous.

the current fixed interest rate on Stafford Federal subsidized loans will double to 6.8 percent unless we here in Congress take action.

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.

When his bill to raise the tax rate on the highest-earning Americans passed the Senate and House without a single Republican vote, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee at the time said it would 'devastate the economy.'

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.