Americans across the country balance their budgets and ensure their spending is within their means, and it is past time the Federal Government does the same.

Eighty-six percent of the reductions that we brought forward were defeated by Republicans.

It is nearly impossible to balance the budget when unelected bureaucrats issue costly rules and spend money without proper oversight.

You would hope that no Republicans, Mr. Chairman, would support supplementals without offsets, because that would demonstrate that the Republican Conference, the Republican majority, doesn't take serious the greatest fiscal crisis we ever…

This unprecedented debt crisis means that going forward Congress will have to take the tough votes to lower our debt.

Politicians can't fix it. We come up with policy.

There is no way in hell I could run the dealership the way this business is run.

do you have the political courage to do what needs to be done?

D.C. must live within its means, it must recognize that economic success comes from unleashing the hard work of Americans.

This resolution would have prohibited the total outlays for fiscal years from exceeding our total receipts.

Without reforms immediately we will never be able to honor the commitments made by this government to our seniors and those most vulnerable.

I am infuriated. I am disappointed. I am very frustrated.

I suggest we have a mechanism of accountability for votes we cast that increase the deficit and debt.

Washington is sacrificing the livelihood of our children, our grandchildren, and national security of our great country to claim partisan victories for reelection.

My constituents sent me to Washington to bring common sense solutions to an institution that can't stop swiping the credit card and racking up our national debt.

We can no longer leave this issue to chance and just hope it goes away.

Continuing resolutions are nothing more than lazy rubber stamps of previous years' spending and priorities that do nothing to course correct the devastating path that we are on.

Our window to restore common sense to our Federal budget is slowly closing, and we must act before our kids and grandkids pay the price for our government's abdication of fiscal responsibility.