I support the budget, the more robust budget that you come in with for transportation infrastructure.

It is about jobs. It is about outbuilding our competitors.

if we do not show political courage right now, we are doomed as a country.

There is clearly a need out there, and there are clearly banks that are still sitting on the sidelines as it relates to making loans available to small businesses.

the Congress needs now to show the leadership, and then to ask the President to join us.

I think it is intuitive to the people of this Nation that if we can really get access to care... we can reduce our health care spending.

the criticality of us working together with President Obama on entitlement reform is so critical.

So for a relatively small investment of Federal funds, we leverage a lot of loans to small companies.

I would really appreciate you keeping us informed as to how well that is working so that we clearly need to pay attention to this issue.

I agree with Senator Conrad. I think the President's proposal for a freeze on domestic discretionary spending... is a very credible plan.

I think we all agree the deficit--we need to have a credible game plan to bring the deficit under control.

the way that the scoring has been done, and discriminates against certain States over others based upon their regulatory structure.

We are getting into the trillion dollar range, if not higher than that.

the $400 billion savings, to me, is a significant part of the overall strategy to bring the deficit under control.

We need tax reform, and we desperately need it.

A freeze is a freeze. It is going to cause us to make some very painful judgments.

Well, I agree. We are still in a very, very difficult position on these issues, and there is uncertainty in the marketplace, also, which is not helpful.

I think that is a pretty direct, honest answer, and I appreciate that.