Mark Kirk actually said...

A policy of shared sacrifice will help us right our economic ship of state.

I applaud the Secretary for making some tough decisions in the fiscal year 2012 budget request.

But if we only targeted unpopular programs for spending reductions, we would do little to fight our out-of-control spending.

During first 9 weeks of 2011, Federal debt increased at an average of $35.6 billion per week.