They held the economy hostage over the debt ceiling in 2011 in an effort to create enough chaos to force their ideological agenda through Congress.
If left unchanged, the President's health care law could deal a devastating blow to the Federal budget.
The role of the Congress in appropriating money, it is a congressional role.
The Senate wants to go into a budget conference, to sit down at a conference table.
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.
we need to be strong as a Nation and we need to have that national defense that is both strategic and funded at an appro...
I just believe we owe it to the American people to come together around some solutions that help our economy grow.
We had a February vote in the Senate to avoid the sequester completely.
we are not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act and we should not repeal the Affordable Care Act.
I do not think that is a good solution and we do not want anybody, including Tea Party Republicans, to push us into a cr...
It is squarely on the shoulders of Congress.