House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer talked about federal deficit reduction. In his remarks he said tax increases will eventually be necessary to address mounting debt and that middle class tax cuts set to expire later in the year would be too costly to remain permanent.
I think it's accurate there's spending fatigue on Capitol Hill and around the country as well. People are concerned about the debt level, and we are as well. Clearly, you cannot not continue to stimulate an economy that is still struggling to get out of the deep ditch that we found it in, about 18 months ago..
Frankly, I think, Ed, the Republican strategy is to see failure by Democrats and by the President. The problem with that is when we don't solve problems, it's not Democrats that lose, our country loses...
The motivating force for young people in this country was civil rights. It was about living out the promise of American equaly. It was about a commitment of this country, which was the bedrock of this country, that all men were created equal, and endowed not by us, but by their creator with certain unalienable rights...
What's happened is two-thirds of the American public believes in effect that we need to put the referee on the field and make sure that those folks who have caused us extraordinarily financial loss in this country and put millions of people out of work and cost the taxpayers a lot of money which hopefully most of which we'll get back but not withstanding that we need to put the referee back on the field. The American public believes that...
