The average person is not only going to get a payroll tax cut, but... more help with their student loans.

I think the Affordable Care Act is essential to all of this.

This has been very difficult and I think what we are seeing now in Ohio and around the country is people start to appreciate what has been done.

I would like to remind my friends who worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan, that he would be beneath Ron Paul.

I have an exception on many.

Ours, as you can see, balances the budget. It takes a long time, but the key is you are getting the debt downward.

The President's budget fails to address the fiscal crisis. It ignores his competitiveness council recommendations, ignores the deficit commission recommendations.

The President's budget spends $47 trillion over the next 10 years. That is 1.5 trillion more than he proposed to spend last year.

The President's budget adds $1.9 trillion in new taxes and fees, none of which will create new jobs.

A map submitted for the record by The Honorable Bill Flores follows:

Now, as a former member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I believe that funding for roads, bridges, buses, trains, is an investment in the economy.

It is not balanced. It will create winners and losers.

Why does government do it better? Chairman Bernanke, last week, of the Federal Reserve, said that the private sector generally invests better.

Just overall I am disappointed in the budget. It fails to address the president's competitiveness council that deals with jobs.

We have added 3.7 million private sector jobs over the last two years and 257,000 just last month.

I think it is important to remind everybody that when the president took office he inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression.

programs like RMAP are critical to rural America, small businesses that make up 90 percent of all rural businesses.

if we do not broaden the base for feedstocks, it is going to be nearly impossible to reach the 36 billion gallons requirement by 2022.