Issue Position: Budget

Issue Position

Budget

Congress should live by the same rules the rest of us live by. I voted for a "pay as you go" rule that would enforce budget discipline on the government in Washington. We shouldn't ask working families to pay a dime more to balance the budget when some corporations use tax tricks to avoid their taxes. I led the effort to crack down on multinational companies that dodge their fair share of taxes so that that small businesses and families will not be asked to pay more. In the Budget Committee as well as in the Social Security Subcommittee, I have stressed that we cannot balance the budget on the backs of seniors, and have asked "why it is that every time there is a deficit problem, the first thing some want to go is cut grandma's Medicare and Social Security?"

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