I would put a ban on earmarks.

I'm sorry. The 6,000 earmarks that were put in place under the speaker's term, for instance, were oftentimes tagged onto other bills.

If you want a fiscal conservative, you can't vote for Rick Santorum because he's not.

I would put a ban on earmarks. I think it opens the door to excessive spending.

But if they refuse to do their job, if they refuse to actually--and the White House is just going to sit here, giddy, with that silly little smirk, and laugh about it like we can't do anything about it, then we make no progress, and that…

Are we going to let the entire automobile industry domestic manufactured automotive industry, disappear and just say well, that was tough, it's just the way it is.

Throwing money at the auto industry is not going to help it long term. If you just write a check that you're going to see these companies go out of business ultimately, what you can't do is just send a big check. Billions and billions of…

And we better fix Michigan and get Michigan on track. And anybody who comes in here, Republican or Democrat, and says they want to help Michigan say, where have you been?

I would actually urge you to be very careful in that respect.

I have grave concern for a couple of reasons. One is, of course, I want folks in the United States to have access to the best devices possible to maintain their health and safety, number one, and secondly, the medical device industry is…

We should not have our head in the sands.

I appreciate your efforts in that.

A debt-to-GDP ratio above 100 percent is clearly unsustainable and puts us in the ranks of the many European countries currently in a severe debt crisis.

I do not think anybody up here wants to cut entitlement programs if they can avoid it.

I do not see any of that money going for deficit reduction.

I have only been here 36 years, but I have gone through it over and over where a Democratic administration has come in and said, we just need more taxes and we will cut spending. We have given them the more taxes, and the spending has…

Unfortunately, it similarly fails to address the Nation's glaring fiscal crisis, and it will probably never be brought to a vote.

the integrated tax rate on dividends would rise to 68.6 percent, and the rate on capital gains would rise to 56.7 percent.