we will work with you to see where we can find other areas that the budget can be tightened

Our broken Tax Code is but one expression of the burden bad fiscal policy places on the economy.

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.

The promises made assuring the Nation that the largest new entitlement program in history since Medicare, the President's health care program, would not add a dime to the long- or short-term debt of America was false.

the greatest threat to our national security is our debt

we have an absolute duty to serve the children effectively, and we need to make sure every dollar we spend is wisely used to get a good result.

I simply ask, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as a former business investor, would you ever invest in a business that spent less than 5 percent of its revenues on training and educating its workforce;

I really do not believe that there is no waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government, and a sequester or BCA reduction of 2 or 3 percent in the growth is not going to--is poor management by the people who run this Government if…

We thought we had a real opportunity to fix long-term entitlements in the 2011 Budget Control Act process.

I think then we would have to have a choice about whether we should then lower rates, which would be my personal choice, but more importantly, to lower spending.

For the American people, what their concern is that by saying enforcement only, you really mean amnesty only.

We have, as Mr. Crane just dramatically indicated, a serious unwillingness to enforce even the most basic laws.

I would just say that is a fundamental question of value, because the United States is not able to have an open border and allow everybody that would like to come to this country come.

the sequester was part of the Budget Control Act. That is what we did.

I did not see the Border Patrol there. I did not see the ICE representatives, the law enforcement officers there.

I believe the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America has a high duty.

It is time to adopt a balanced approach, as my colleagues say, to deficit reduction.

I do not think anybody representing the broad-based American public was there.

As the debt grows, the private sector has to assume that that debt is going to be paid.

Well, we certainly all believe and share the view there is a great opportunity for bipartisanship in simplifying this Tax Code and making it more productive and creating more growth, creating, therefore, more jobs and better wages for…

I do not believe this sequester is going to be fixed with new taxes.

I do not want us to repeat the mistakes made by some governments of increasing taxes when the real problem is excessive spending.

It is time for the Commander-in-Chief to provide certainty in the defense budget and explain the dangers of these large defense cuts.

I am beginning to wonder if the President is not quite happy to see the Defense Department take this much cuts.

I do believe it has got to be done on a bipartisan basis.