The interest on that debt is the fastest-growing component of the Federal budget.

If you are paying your home mortgage with your credit card, and that is essentially what this country is doing at the moment...

The United States now staggers under $19 trillion of debt, nearly half of it run up in the last 8 years.

Every billion dollars is about $8 from an average family's taxes...

Nothing surprises me about the mendacity of this Administration anymore.

Within 5 years, it will consume more than we now spend for our entire defense establishment.

And just a few years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama vigorously opposed an increase in the debt limit sought by the Bush Administration.

If you get in bed with the Federal Government, you had better be prepared for something more than a good night's sleep.

Today the Subcommittee on Federal Lands has come to St. George to hold an oversight hearing on the Bureau of Land Management's draft Resource Management Plan pursuant to the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.

If a community, say, in my district were invited to participate in this process, to make concessions, with the expectation that they would be ratified into law and carried out, would you advise the people of my community to participate in…

The only actual bona fide representatives of the community are the representatives the community has elected.

The Secretary of the Interior shall identify a route. It does not say 'study' or 'consider,' and it does not say 'may.' It says 'shall identify a route.'