Sam Brownback

It is clearly enabling, because what we are doing is allowing State and local pension funds to divest.

Iran's Sanctions Enabling Act, S. 1065, currently has 33 bipartisan cosponsors of it.

It simply would be unconscionable to allow the mullahs to acquire nuclear weapons.

The Iranian Government is the leading state sponsor of terrorism worldwide.

I think it is important if we can get at what is the actual universe and the number.

The President used a figure, I think he said 30 million, and he said that the program will not cover illegal aliens.

I believe the President's price tag on the proposal was--I thought he said last night around $900 billion over 10; is that correct?

Wouldn't we be better off to be very narrow and focused on incremental movement and getting our entitlement spending under control?

I presume you are going to try to make it up on the other end of it as a proposal, but I wonder if you are going to really end up with a better system than if you would go incrementally at these pieces where we are now.

He does not believe that the plan should add to the deficit, $1 to the deficit.

I would hope that we would look at this whole health care debate as one we would want to go at incrementally.

The stimulus was not adequately targeted towards job creation and foreclosure prevention which are weighing heavily on the economy.

Thus far, the stimulus has failed on all three fronts: funds have not been spent in a timely manner; spending has not been targeted to employment and foreclosure prevention.

I am concerned about the way that the Federal government is addressing the economic downturn and, in particular, the lack of focus on jobs.

It seems like that was the dynamite cap, a big one, and it has exploded the rest of it.

Unemployment is going to be the key figure for us to be watching from this point on forward.

These funds need to be used and put forward.

I think the key thing we need to focus on is getting unemployment rates down.

We are going into next year with a higher unemployment rate next year as unemployment trails economic recovery.

I really do believe from this point on forward we need to make sure money is available to buy houses.

We need to do something to stop that hemorrhaging.

I think that we have to get through this storm.

I hope we can focus on what we need to do to get that unemployment rate down.

We have got a deep recession going on, no question about that.

I am also concerned that some of these rewritings of mortgages, they are not moving very fast.