I believe the government must meet all of its outstanding obligations, and for this reason I understand that Congress has always acted to raise the debt limit when necessary.

I was part of the Gang of Eight that wrote the immigration bill here in the Senate, which got 68 votes.

Will you tell the American people today that your administration will not accept a tax reform bill from the Congress that cuts taxes on average for high-income taxpayers?

One way to support farming and ranching communities in Colorado, in this difficult economy, is to make sure we have markets for our products.

In my State, 50 percent of the people are children. So I hear people, politicians talk about, go to work.

I view that as an attack on rural Colorado and on rural America.

the President's priority is to grow the military spending and offset that with less domestic spending.

you are presenting a budget that cuts more taxes.

I just hope--Mr. Chairman, I hope the people who voted for this person are listening to these answers.

We are going to cut domestic discretionary spending by 40 percent.

the difference between the 18 percent of GDP that we are collecting in revenue and the more than 21 percent of GDP that we are spending in this government, all the promises that have been made to the tea party about balancing the budget…