We can't afford these wasteful subsidies.

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

We're going to have to rein in these deficits in the long run.

We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences.

After years of irresponsibility, we are once again taking responsibility for every dollar we spend, the same way families do.

An additional $1.5 billion is supporting much-needed capital improvements.

We've so far spent about $91 billion in tax relief, which has had a positive effect on retail sales.

This bill spends too much.

This bill continues to fund programs that are duplicative or ineffective.

This bill lacks fiscal discipline.

A 15 percent Federal pay increase, built into the Government's cost base for all succeeding years, would be a dangerous step away from budget discipline.

Increasing the Federal employment costs at such an extraordinary rate would render those budgets inadequate to provide the planned level of services.

A unified budget presents spending tradeoffs and permits more fully informed decisions to be made on allocating the Nation's resources.

Don't you dare spend that surplus until we save the Social Security system for the next generation.

We are particularly concerned about large cuts to the seagoing buoy tender replacement, the Deepwater Capability Replacement Analysis, and family housing.

We want to work with the Congress on mutually agreeable mandatory and other offsets that would be used to increase high priority discretionary programs.

Don't you think at least we ought to look at the bank balance for a week or two before we start spending it again?

The allocation is simply insufficient to make the necessary investments in programs funded by this bill.