Forty States. And if you look at between the late 1980s, when sentencing, mandatory minimums, three strikes you are out started to hit, the growth in State funding for prisons and ...
I am looking forward to discussing this further today and I am certainly going to keep fighting to make sure we are movi...
Part of it is a lack of cost control in the university community, public and private.
These children and students did not cause the debt and deficit challenges we are focused on addressing, but under seques...
ensuring access to early childhood education has been a longstanding priority of mine
We passed it after hearing over and over again that the Senate would not pass a budget. And we passed one.
It is something I would like to work on.
We need to tackle our deficits and debt in a balanced way, with a mix of spending cuts and new revenue from those who ca...
Our work in the 1990s proved that calling on the wealthy to pay their fair share is not incompatible with strong economi...
I think that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit.
That is why the Senate budget takes a measured and fair approach to completely replace the sequester with a balanced mix...