It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills, |
Mr. Tancredo can put out all the press releases he wants. |
My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts. |
national crisis that requires a national response. |
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary. |
No one should believe that this vote is about deficit reduction. By insisting on another $70 billion of tax cuts ... the deficit actually goes up. |
People are acting like this $5.6 trillion surplus is etched in stone. It's not. It's etched in quicksand. |
President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in our nation's history. |
She laughed, and who would have known, |
She starts off in a positive position with me because of these conversations we have had, ... She is a lovely person. Some people you encounter in life and you like them. |
So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster. |
That is several lifetimes in politics, ... and that makes it hard to predict. There are lots of other capable people who, no doubt, will step forward. Certainly this was his best chance. |
The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later. |
The fact is, we have worked together effectively as a team for North Dakota, most recently in the fight to save our bases, ... I look forward to continuing to work together to serve the people of our state. |
The ground-breaking research that will be done right here in North Dakota will allow our grandchildren to drive hydrogen-powered cars, live in hydrogen-powered homes and end our country's addiction to foreign sources of energy. |