Sam Brownback

I really believe, as Senator Brownback said, the uncertainty; cap and trade, tax increases, health care mandates, all that they are seeing up here is having a dramatic effect on businesses' decisions to invest capital, make that expansion…

I think that is a wise move on the Fed's part.

Or enact other spending that would exacerbate the deficit or debt.

On our current trajectory, we are on a track to have lower standards of living.

I think we all want the same thing; we want a strong vibrant growing economy.

The greatest threat our nation currently faces is a national debt that has spiraled out of control.

So clearly it would be wise to get that debt and deficit down?

We have to work on the jobless rate, yet it almost seems like now would be the time period we would start looking at how you pull back on some of the deficits that the Federal Government is running?

The publicly held national debt will nearly double from 40 percent of GDP in 2008 to 75 percent of GDP in 2018.

This budget is a job-killer.

I encourage President Obama to study the successful economic policies of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

The only way that we are going to restore meaningful, long-term growth in employment and output is through the private sector.

The massive stimulus bill--$787 billion--that passed in February. The American people were told that this was necessary to prevent unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

I opposed passage of TARP and I am even more opposed to the Administration and Congressional majority transforming this money into a perpetual slush fund.

We should consider what's going on on Oak Street and Elm Street back home because this is where the job growth will occur.

If we cannot teach our next generation on how to be gainfully employed the moment they finish school, we've permanently set them back for the rest of their lives.

I do not think the fiscal policy situation is helping much at all, and I think it long term is a significant detriment to us because of the huge debt and deficits that are being run.

What the message is that small business is getting around this country is: Look out, your taxes are going up.

Every politician stands up on a stump sometime and says that small business is the engine that creates jobs

I have several, though, strong concerns about this. It seems to me most of this is probably built on monetary policy not fiscal policy.

I agree with Senator Klobuchar, that, I think, in the future, we've got to make more things here and rely less on our consumer to spend our way into prosperity in this economy.

The Federal Government will not be there to help them, or, more importantly, the Federal Government shouldn't be hurting them with omnibus bills and cap-and-trade bills and healthcare bills, when they need help the most.

If I could, if we get in another financial crisis, and if the trajectory of the past is a projection of the future, it looks like we will, and it will be sooner rather than later, will the courage exist here to allow those triggers to be…

I am sorry for being late; I had another hearing I was at.

I tried to put a 25-cent-per-trip tax on them last year to help pay for our air traffic control system.