I know that the members of this committee take the advice and consent clause of the Constitution seriously.
While we don't always agree and won't always agree, we have both put concrete healthcare proposals on the table for discussion.
Our healthcare system is broken and fixing it is one area where I hope this 80 percent rule comes into play.
Every independent group that has looked at this... has said that this carbon tax... represents a $300-billion-a-year increase in revenues.
Except that we are about to make it a Federal issue and a Federal tax, because we are talking about cap and trade, which is a tax, and that ...
Part of it has been the speed with which we have done things and the size of the things that we have done.
I think it's smarter to invest when they're young--through programs like Head Start--rather than spending $50,000 a year to keep a kid who f...
We do appreciate the answers that we have gotten today and look forward to the same cooperative spirit and look forward to a quick confirmat...
We also keep talking about being bipartisan, but we do not act bipartisan.
Well, we were also told that with the first TARP that that money would go to buy toxic assets.
Nobody in America, I think, believes that we can spend the $700 billion or the $820 billion efficiently.