“That added up to an economic cost of about $48 billion a year,”
Karen Davis
“The country is forced to devote more than $450 billion each year to health care costs and other expenses because of the high burden exacted children's diseases and disabilities. The National Children's Study would pay for its total cost many times over with the expected reductions it could make on this heavy societal burden.”
Christine Cronk
“Underage drinking costs the United States more than $62 billion each year. At this crucial time when research shows that girls are binge drinking with alarming regularity, more must be done to reduce youth access to alcohol, and the appeal of alcohol to our youth.”
David Jernigan
“While costs for full interoperability are estimated at $18 billion, for the second year in a row the president's budget completely zeros out specific funding for interoperability,”
Bart Stupak
“Every single year we wait, we are adding billions and billions of dollars to our deficit, ... If you break your arm today, would you wait for your next physical or would you go to the hospital and get it fixed right now?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The administration's forthcoming budget is expected to have approximately $200 billion in missing costs in the fifth year, ... Once these missing costs are taken into account, the deficit is seen as being in the range of $500 billion in 2009, or around 3.5 percent of GDP. That is not close to cutting the deficit in half.”
Richard Kogan
“it would cost power plants about $3 billion to clean up. It's estimated that the costs of the pollution in the air to New York are $60 billion in terms of all of the loss and corrosion and everything else that occurs.”
Charles Schumer
