I think that would be a good idea. I would like to see it much higher than that.

I think deterrence works best when deterrence is clear, as with relationships that we have with NATO, Taiwan, and so forth.

Statements by American leaders, that essentially create a full employment opportunity for human traffickers are very damaging.

I don't think it's an especially moral policy what Chancellor Merkel has proposed in Europe.

What kind of message did that send to families in Central America and South America about the risk they're willing to undertake to send their children to the United States through human traffickers and through coyotes?

there was uncommon consensus in the subcommittee hearing about the need for this next generation bomber.

In the end, I think some kind of genuine action on our part is going to be necessary; otherwise, they will present us with a fait accompli in the South China Sea.

Are we putting the kind of resources we need to into this immediate problem of the maintenance and flight readiness of these aircraft?

Do you think it is more humanitarian to preserve these munitions in our arsenal and, hopefully, deter them or any other munitions from ever having to be used, or to remove them from the arsenal and perhaps increase the likelihood of a…

Even with tax increases, it balloons to more than $700 billion a year.

I know that the President wants to raise a lot of taxes. What I find incomprehensible as a Member of Congress...

I concur with the chairman, and I have an enormous amount of respect for the ranking member.

Now, when you look at where we have come from, the $10 trillion to $20 trillion, that is a huge deficit increase--or huge debt increase, and no one gets a pat on the back for that.

But your attempts to sugarcoat this budget and its projections for the future on behalf of the administration that I know you work for is just a sad abdication of responsibility for the challenges we are facing as a country.

How can you sit here with a straight face and tell this committee... that this President has done anything but lead?

I am glad you mentioned health care, because I agree with you that it is the principal driver of the deficits and the debt.

So only in Washington and only from the Office of Management and Budget could we see the gross Federal debt go from $19 trillion today to... even with $3 trillion worth of tax increases, $26 trillion in the 10-year window.

When you're making a revolution, you can't be too careful about the facts.