Stable funding allows our military members to plan and meet growing needs and threats.

But given at least 150 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse, why can't we at least cut the budget by 150 billion?

We are here to discuss discretionary caps, but this conversation - while important - is a waste of time without a plan to address the true drivers of out-of-control deficits and debt.

The costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it.

That is why, in my most recent budget proposal, I proposed investing $1 billion to expand access to treatment for prescription opioid misuse and heroin use.

We can't fund our country the way we did 10 years ago, because we have greater demands.

It is behind schedule and over budget.

We need to take action on a balanced approach to do something serious about our deficit challenges.

It should be a balance of some smart cuts in programs that don't work.

We can't afford to do both.

Four billion dollars, imagine that.

I am transmitting the District of Columbia's 2012 Budget Request Act.

This battle that we're having about a budget right now, that's--it's not just about numbers.

America has to start living within its means.

He doesn't believe that highly contentious social issues or ideological issues belong in budget bills.

We have to live within our means, we've got to get serious about managing our budget.

We need to come together, Democrats and Republicans, around a long-term budget that sacrifices wasteful spending without sacrificing the job-creating investments in our future.

I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Budget amendments.