Dan Coats

Let's seize this opportunity. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut.

We must all ask how we can better manage and oversee Federal departments.

Not to repeat, but I will repeat Senator Collins' point that we are operating during a time where the game has changed.

we are faced with a fiscal crisis which requires us to say, how can we take better care of the taxpayer dollars.

I find myself echoing the words of the previous speaker, my good friend from Ohio. I could have given his speech and he probably could give mine because we are both on the same track. This is an important day. The President will release…

I look forward to serving on this subcommittee with you and our ranking member.

I call up amendment No. 514. It is a bipartisan amendment with Senator Manchin. It clarifies that a Presidential exemption exists for utilities that despite their good- faith efforts have been unable to complete the necessary measures to…

I rise today as the senior Senate Republican of the Joint Economic Committee to discuss one of the most fundamental issues this body confronts on a year-to-year basis, or at least should confront on a year-to-year basis, which is passing a…

I was puzzled earlier today when the Senate majority leader came to the floor to propose a unanimous consent request that we move forward with this continuing resolution. He is right, we should move forward with this. But I was puzzled by…

Our spending addiction in Washington has, at long last, led us to the point where we now face the prospect of record deficits.

We have to do a better job of conveying to the folks that live in these countries where they are coming north the risks that they face.

We have to make sure that our employers know that if you are trying to hire illegal aliens, you are doing it knowingly, we are going to find you out and we are going to punish you.

Our spending addiction in Washington has led to the point where we now face the prospect of record deficits as far as the eye can see.

I think unfortunately we are perhaps inadvertently already in a fiscal disaster.

Many experts believe that our failure to seriously grapple with our ballooning national debt is already having a significant detrimental impact on economic growth.

Ironically, Senator Coats, the lead Senate Republican of this Committee has, along with Senator Wyden, proposed such an approach

I congratulate the President for in the last few weeks stepping forward and saying I'm going to get into the room on this issue.

The fact is that Congress and the Executive Branch have failed to address the debt crisis effectively.

Eventually, we will reach a point where investors either stop buying our debt or insist on higher interest rates.

Well, clearly the sequester should be replaced by targeted action in the area of entitlement reform.

Temporary stopgap measures solve little, if anything; they simply put off the inevitable day of reckoning.

I think we should seize this moment.

The fact is that Congress and the Executive branch have utterly failed to address the debt crisis effectively.

Appreciate the plug for Wyden-Coats.

when I go back to Indiana and meet with Hoosiers, they often ask why Washington seems to experience a crisis every few weeks. It is a debt limit battle. It is a threat of a government shutdown. It is the fiscal cliff on New Year's Eve. It…