We demagogue these issues.
To me, it is sort of a sad state of affairs, and that is why I think the accumulation of waste, we do not ever ferret an...
Even if only one department had to be done every year, it would still be, I think, a good idea.
I personally think if you had leadership that at the beginning of the year had all 100 Senators sit down in the chamber ...
Yes, sequester across the board would have actually fixed government.
I think you made a good point in the beginning, talking about extending the sequester instead.
So there has to be something that has to change, and I agree with you that we can have these process changes, which I am...
the public desperately wants you to get out of partisan attack mode and start working together to find solutions.
I cannot think of a better way to describe how dysfunctional Congress is with its power of the purse.
Missing appropriation deadlines have consequences. It causes uncertainty in agencies and delays plans, which may increas...
We spent $79 million on an Embassy in Mazar-e-Sharif. Never opened.
I think there is an argument to be made that our national security is actually made more perilous the more we spend and ...
$45 million on a natural-gas gas station in the defense budget because we are greening-up Afghanistan.
You know, after 16 years, thousands of lives, probably a trillion dollars spent, the Afghans do not seem to be able to d...
If we had the sequester across the whole thing, one, it takes pressure off of military spending.
I think from the Constitution, I think Defense would have to be done every year, but the rest of them could be biennial.
The sequester turned out to be the best thing to slow down the rate of growth of government in a long time, and it actua...
I have never voted for any specific project or even for a group of projects because I have never voted for anything othe...
