Patty Murray actually said...

it will be very possible for a hedge fund manager to pay a lower tax rate on his income than a soldier or a police officer or a teacher.

I was really dismayed to once again see how drastically underfunded the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund is.

we have to consider the retirement of the baby boomers and the need to invest in our people and in our infrastructure.

The revenue policy in the budget that this Committee wrote and the Senate passed... was shaped by those unavoidable realities.