I believe you said that he never used it in 8 years.

I thought maybe we are making better use of our rescission powers than the President.

I think sometimes budget process things are sold for the wrong reasons or misunderstood or judged by the wrong standards.

As a percentage of GDP, our national debt stands today at almost 85 percent, a level I think exceeded only during World War II, during the past 70 years.

I have always said that if I cannot convince 50 of my colleagues to support a request that I have made, then I am in the wrong business, or at least I am picking the wrong projects.

Yet, the President says, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Members of Congress say, we are going to have fiscal discipline. Our question is when?

I think the President finally saying, if you include funding again for the F-22, I am going to veto the bill, and that was very helpful.

Do you have any other additional concerns about S. 907 that were part of the 1996 line-item veto debate?

You bet. Thank you.

We need to find a better way to reduce wasteful spending without jeopardizing the funding for our top priorities.

Every year, as Senator Feingold has said, Congress passes a number of spending bills, and, not surprisingly, these bills sometimes include spending on items which many of us would consider of marginal value, some even wasteful, and which…