I come from Seattle where we spend a lot of effort politically passing initiatives for low-income housing.

Russell Long, the old Finance Chairman in the Senate, once said that tax policy is 'Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax the guy behind the tree.'

we are setting in motion a policy to pay for a reduction in corporate taxes down to 25 percent by taking it away from homeowners

Can you give me any reason why the sequester cuts to the National Institutes of Health would be good for the economy?

We have watched Europe deal with the same economic situation we are dealing with, and they have had such magnificent success with their austerity measures.

I have sat here and listened to this debate about debt, and cutting and cutting and cutting.

I can imagine Albert Gallatin coming in here and explaining why they bought the Louisiana Purchase.

The President's budget really is an effort, in my view, to reinvigorate a search for common ground and the common good.

Implementing the Affordable Care Act on top of managing Medicare and Medicaid will not be easy.

The middle class is being destroyed in this country.

Our Republican colleagues resisted all the President's efforts or almost all the President's efforts in infrastructure creation.

If you play by the rules and you work hard, you are running in place; you are not getting ahead.