#reducing

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#care #care costs #case #costs #country

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#add #benjamin #benjamin franklin #certain #certainty

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#children #enhancing #health #need #pregnancy

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach. ↗

— William Hague

#earners #earning #higher #lower #nation

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#back #burn #choice #clear #concrete

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#action #hunger #important #lever #poverty

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#consolidating #county #duties #government #greatly

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount. ↗

— Sean Booth

#actual #amount #approximations #deal #digital

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bring #does #down #focus #gdp

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut. ↗

— David Obey

#appropriations #bill #cut #education #health