Sam Brownback

Despite the significant turnaround in growth, I would like to point out that our economy has only grown by $113 billion.

We ought to look at ways to pull back on the things that stimulate the government and support the things that stimulate the economy

I voted against a bunch of it, but it happened.

Looks like to me it is going to help us a substantial amount on exports over a longer term.

I am not a VAT--I don't like a VAT for the way it is so hidden.

But we will be different when we get back. We are going through pain, but let's get on the other side and show something for it.

It seems this is a real mercantilist strategy on the Chinese part, that they stimulate and keep their economy going.

The key impediment to hiring and investment among small businesses is the lack of credit.

So that one is a big impact in that quarter.

I think it is time we start looking at raising of interest rates, as the Australians have done

I was supportive of the Cash for Clunkers program because I thought this is an economic stimulus, not a government stimulus

The world community is yelling at us about our fiscal policies, saying that, yes, we need to do some of these things monetary-wise

The health care does it too. As people are trying to calculate, okay, what do I do?

The biggest complaint I get is that people can't get credit.

You may slow your job loss level, but you are not going to have much job creation.

People are just appalled by it. Because they just go, you know, these things have been building.

I think the cap-and-trade idea is one you ought to pull away from.

I understand your position on it.

I was not favorable towards the stimulus. I saw it as a government stimulus, not an economic stimulus; and it just seems to me that the numbers have, unfortunately, borne that out.

I was troubled that the Funding Opportunity Announcement for this program limits participation eligibility to U.S. operations of companies' headquartered abroad.

I don't believe, is that we can achieve this goal by promulgating national carbon emission regulation.

I support the goals you both have laid out in your written testimony.

Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism worldwide, the foremost exporter of extremist ideology, and the primary source of instability in the Middle East.

It simply, in my estimation, would be unconscionable to allow the mullahs to acquire nuclear weapons.

This allows State and local units of government to divest from investments associated with Iranian companies.