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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think we should seize this moment.

Madam President, 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…

I had a good experience with Congressman Dingell, and I know I will have a good experience with you.

Mr. President, a few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE, initiated an unexplainable order to take action to reduce the population of detained illegal aliens, and they said it was for budgetary…