David Perdue

The budget process is broken. It has only worked four times in the last 43 years.

the budget process is broken. We know that.

I have to tell you, I am offended by that argument personally.

So the last few years, we have seen the annual deficit... decline I would actually say fairly significantly.

Our Federal Government has grown from $2.4 trillion in 2000 to $3.9 trillion last year.

I think the evidence is there that the connection between bigger Government and more equality has been disproven not just here in the United States, but in other mature Western economies, over time, not just in the last decade, over the…

Here we are again, 2 years in, nothing has changed.

every dollar that the Government spends is a dollar that is sucked out of this equation that created this economic miracle.

Big government has failed. It has failed in poverty.

I for one have never called for cutting Social Security.

the dirtiest four-letter word in our English language today, and it threatens our Republic.

Government has proven that it is not very efficient.

Unless we do something now to this baseline budget that we have today, we will add another $10 trillion to that debt over the next 10 years.

This is a fraud on the American people, and it has been perpetrated for 42 years.

And then how is it going to spend the money?

So the model right now, we are about a little less than 18 percent of our GDP as the Federal Government.

Not only those two things, but the third is are we able to--does the system always have the best and brightest move to the top?

I now ask unanimous consent that the Senate observe a moment of silence for those who have lost their lives in Georgia and across the southeast in these recent storms. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senate…

I rise today to express my sympathy and support for the people in my home State of Georgia. This past weekend, severe storms and deadly tornadoes tore through South Georgia destroying homes and businesses and taking the lives…

You do not really want to call on me right now, Mr. Chairman. I am thoroughly disgusted.

Mr. President, not only should you allow the appropriations process to flow, but you should actively engage to encourage it to happen.

It contributes to this debt.

I would submit that the process is broken.

the greatest threat to national security is our own federal debt.

The Department of Defense does need an audit.