The cuts will be made by eliminating fraud, waste and abusive spending.

I’m not in favor of raising the tax rates because our party is the group that stands against that traditionally.

Of course people don't like the Democratic Party, because we lost an election. I don't like the Democratic Party — and I'm a Democrat — because I don't like parties that lose elections.

We are closing the door on increasing taxes on millionaires.

I would not expect that. We have been working against that idea.

While they appear to be healthy, there are a lot of challenges at these facilities that require immediate attention.

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

what you see depends on where you sit. Last Friday, it was announced that the BRIC Program, or the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program, run by FEMA would end, and money which had been allocated would be pulled back…

Every step of this process is going to be tough. We’ve said this from the very beginning.

I thank my dear friend from the great State of Texas, the chairman of the House Committee on the Budget, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this resolution and in moving this process forward. Let's keep in mind that we…

Failure is not an option.

I think today would be a great day to buy stocks

We are committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people, while also preserving our essential programs.

I think he's way off on this.

We're committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people while also preserving our essential programs.

That was a big step, because that will allow us now to move forward to have our committees actually drafting the one big, beautiful bill.

I think he's flat wrong.

I've made it very clear I think the president has executive authority. It's an appropriate level of authority to deal with the unfair trade practices.