You would need to consider the impact of a large flow of immigrants on the ability of people to get jobs and maybe have an increase in their wage, would you not?

But that would need to be fixed, would it not?

On March 15, 2013, Secretary Hagel announced a series of steps the United States will take to stay ahead of the challenge posed by North Korea and Iran's development of longer-range ballistic missile capabilities.

But it is happening. It is happening right now. It is in the law.

I'm concerned that our partners will look to create their own, and this is the very definition of proliferation.

There was no provision in the BCA agreement to raise taxes.

I think it's unimaginable that if we go to zero that every other country in the world would go to zero.

I know you love the country and know a lot about the military. So we have some real opportunities, I think, in the years to come and some real challenges.

the administration was surprised by the threat from North Korea--prompting the March 2013 decision to add back the 14 GBIs in Alaska, which DOD cancelled in 2009.

Excessive, non-productive spending and the consequently high and growing national debt hurt the pace of economic activity.

I have my doubts that it is going to deliver on its promises.

It seems to me that a showdown over the debt ceiling resulted in Gramm-Rudman being passed. It resulted in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

We all agree that public policies need to support strong economic growth that benefits all Americans--middle-class Americans, working Americans--whose incomes have not kept up, whose unemployment rates are persistently high, who have…

obviously you suggest the choice of reducing deficit between cutting spending and raising taxes, the better choice is to reduce spending.

I think the economic argument that defense is the source of our fiscal problems is really wrong.

So we have to make decisions about how that is done so it does not disrupt socially and economically the Nation.

We are proud of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and they get about $300 million from the Federal Government.

It provides an important opportunity to address the economic harm that is caused by excessive Federal spending and debt.

We remain on an unsustainable debt course, and one major reason for that is the lack of honesty in evaluating the cost of new spending programs and the benefits, which are exaggerated.

I am concerned--now, I will ask Mr. Muhlhausen and Mr. Lesley this question--well, first, Ms. Crowe, with regard to Virginia and the importance they placed on fiscal management, your remarks talk about the danger of reductions in spending.

I personally believe that the $520 billion would be a really difficult swing, but I think it should be developed by strategy.

I have called for Mr. Morton to resign. I think he has failed in his fundamental duty to enforce the law and maintain the morale of the people that we pay to do their jobs every day.

This is a critical choice we are facing, and we need to honestly review it.

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced dramatic new CO2 regulations that have been interpreted to be the death of coal.

The austerity we talk about is raising taxes.