Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
Judd Alan Greggserved as the 76th Governor of New Hampshire and was a United States Senator from New Hampshire, who served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics. He currently serves as the Chair of the Public Advisory Board at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Gregg was nominated for Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet by...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
While we continue to provide much-needed assistance in federal resources, we must provide an accountable structure for ensuring that these taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and in a systematic way,
Congress has provided $60 billion already for reconstruction, recovery and rehabilitation efforts to help the people in the Gulf Coast region get back on their feet, ... Currently, I am working with a number of my colleagues to come up with viable options for finding offsets for this emergency spending. I look forward to finding consensus on a solution that will make the most sense to ensure that we do not deficit-spend.
The cost of this catastrophe is going to be huge, ... We're willing to pay that price.
I'm willing to look at a revenue solution and I'm not going to get too specific about it,
It's very hard to reduce the rate of growth of spending around here,
The Internet is a remarkable learning tool for children, but as this report shows, there are significant dangers online for children,
It will mean the deficit goes up probably 150 (billion dollars), maybe even more,
We just look at the House sometimes and shake our heads.
We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.
We all know we're going to have to put this off because of the present intensity of the Katrina issues, but whether it's two weeks, three weeks, I don't know. But the view is we're going to still execute this reconciliation package in a timely manner,
It is the American way to reward ability.
Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or ranking member of. And in both instances they were just great people to work with.
We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
There's no agreement to pay for this at all. Those of us who would like to pay for it are very much a minority within our caucus,