We ought to be putting pressure on the administration here to do something about it.

Senator Dan Coats, currently a Senator, was on this committee then, and he said at that hearing 25 years ago many of the States are way ahead of the Federal Government in terms of opening themselves up to more innovative solutions in…

Our State is not exempt from this scourge that is affecting every State across the country.

the mandatory spending and interest will consume 99 percent of all Federal revenues. Obviously, that is unsustainable.

I think last year it got one vote. I am not sure who that was. In previous years, it has gotten zero votes.

But regarding the major issue that we all face, both sides, mandatory spending, over the last 40 years we have not addressed that.

I do not know of an economist out there who says the way to prosperity... is to raise taxes $3 trillion over the next 10 years.

This is a bunch of gibberish going on up here in Washington, and we want something different.

It is a failure on all of our parts, not without trying, but the bottom line is, it is a failure.

We have caught on to this shell game that goes on in Washington.

When you bring forward a budget year after year after year and it gets zero votes from Democrats or Republicans, does it ever give you pause that maybe your vision for the future is not selling with the American people?