But if we are going to do that, how can we not provide the equipment?

But they should be required?

I believe that no officer should be without a bulletproof vest.

We need to do everything we can for the men and women who risk their lives to protect us.

Enforceable spending controls, like the CAP Act, and a constitutional amendment to limit the size of government must first be passed.

A bicameral sunset committee should be established with the sole mandate of identifying Federal rules, regulations and laws that do more harm than good.

I think there is a great deal of agreement, certainly what I found, I would say consensus in Washington that we actually need to reform our Tax Code.

Let's look at what we agree on. We agree on reforming government, we agree on pro growth tax reform, so let's actually start doing it this year.

I am all for increasing revenue, but let's do it the old-fashioned way by actually getting economic growth.

A regulation moratorium should be put in place until measures like the United Kingdom's one-in/one-out rule and the REINS Act can be enacted.

The real long-term looming crisis in terms of our budget is entitlements, Medicare and Social Security.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for not more than 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I come to the floor this afternoon before the debate on President Obama's just-submitted budget descends into the arguments over the smaller little details that, quite frankly, are not going to have that great of an effect…

I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. I think we are all aware that this issue came out when Peter Schweizer wrote a book called ``Throw Them All Out.'' After that, ``60 Minutes'' did a special story about how Members of Congress were…

There is no oversight. I think that is one of our concerns.

It is our responsibility to make sure we do our job.

I think it is important to share that power so we don't have this continual divide in a very important agency.

We want to keep it immune from political activity.