Sam Brownback

I really appreciate you guys doing that.

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

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

It is not about us. Sometimes I think we think this is about us. It is not about us. It is about the people that we represent and the people you try to help every day.

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.

I noted to you in my opening comments that our debt is now 90 percent of GDP, our total debt, and that most economists believe when you get at that 90 percent level you have a significant drag on your overall economy.

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

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

This budget is a job-killer.

the CARFA bill that will be voted on shortly has passed this Senate every Congress since the 107th Congress. It has either passed by rollcall vote or unanimous consent. This is nothing new. It has passed this body multiple times. Now it…

I think this is a healthy discussion we are having. We do not usually discuss much the Fed Chairman or the appointment or the nomination of a Fed Chairman. Yet monetary policy affects all of us in a huge way and dramatically affects the…

I wish to show two other charts. This is not new information, but I think it is pretty dramatic in its presentation, the level of the massive addition of Federal debt at levels we have never seen before. We are looking at $1.4 trillion in…

This is a commission that has been in front of this body several times. We voted on it. It passed this body twice before in the budget debates. It is CARFA, the Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies. It is modeled…

Mr. President, right now, at this very minute, hundreds of thousands of people are amassing in this town for the 37th annual Right to Life March--hundreds of thousands. It will be a crowd where 80 percent will be under the age of 25. It is…

I rise to speak on the budget deficit and a mechanism this body has embraced in two prior budget agreements that I think it is time to put in place now. It is called the CARFA mechanism, the Committee on Accountability and Review of…

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.