This Committee has been wrestling with the need to reform Medicare's physician payment system for more than a decade.

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.'

There is one in Seattle named the McDermott Place which has 54 homeless veterans living in it, so I know about how it is done.

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?

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

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

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.

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.