The revenue policy in the budget that this Committee wrote and the Senate passed... was shaped by those unavoidable realities.
we have to consider the retirement of the baby boomers and the need to invest in our people and in our infrastructure.
I was really dismayed to once again see how drastically underfunded the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund is.
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 offic...
I have long believed that early childhood education is one of the best investments the Federal Government can make.
every time we have had a balanced budget in recent memory, revenues have been higher than we are projected to experience...
But as everyone on this Committee knows, the path before us is going to be a struggle.
They are saying that any additional revenue, even if it is generated by closing unfair tax loopholes, is off the table.
I think what the American public deeply want us to do is to take the two budgets... and try to find some longer-term dea...
I am going to associate myself with those who say you have to fix both sides of the balance sheet.
I am very concerned about this sequester and its impact right now on children and middle-class families.