More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.