The legislation we are going to discuss today is, in my opinion, a no brainer.

In one case, it was the candidate's father who ran the super PAC, as I understand it, is that correct?

Senate candidates, however, willfully remain stuck in the Dark Ages, filing their disclosure reports on paper.

The improvement in Senate-related campaign finance disclosure that would result from the passage of S. 219 is long overdue.

Nevertheless, this President has made our spending problems much worse with policies such as the failed stimulus and the new health care entitlement.

Despite the urgent need to rein in our runaway debt, the President's budget would add $13 trillion to debt--an unconscionable burden we're imposing on our economy today and our children tomorrow.

We feel that it is our responsibility to do things differently, to lead where the President has fallen short.

But I sincerely wonder about that.

I just wanted to say how disappointed we are that the President has failed to lead on the most important fiscal challenges of our time.

There has been a lot of talk about the politics of taking on these challenges, and the conventional wisdom is that the politically safe thing to do, I suppose, is to do nothing.

I question the assertion of primary balance, given that the final arbiter, CBO, on this is using a different set of projections.

Let's not say that we are only for clean debt limits when, just a year ago, the President was fine with attaching things on debt limit.

I don't see how you can square Mr. Carney... the debt goes from $13 trillion to $26 trillion.

If you want to talk about budgets, why don't you look at our 2009 budget, which was the last budget we as a conference actually did, instead of an individual piece of legislation that I introduced?

you guys have saved the auto industry.

I wonder how long Americans are going to tolerate empty promises about their retirement security.

Making a multi-year commitment to the principles embodied in the President's Budget will reduce the risk of future crises.

Which is the long-term trajectory.