Sam Brownback

Your decisions will, without a doubt, have major economic implications for thousands of my fellow Kansans.

I believe that while it's imperative for us to continue moving toward modernization, we do so in a way that will not impose unfair costs on specific sectors of the aviation industry, or even worse, the taxpayer.

the general aviation industries headquartered in my State's fabulous, global dominating industry, one that has been hurt some by Congress lately.

And we need this. We need NextGen. We need to do it now.

unprofessional activities

He said yes, he would. That didn't happen. On his word of doing that, in front of open committee, I lifted my hold on the South Korea Ambassador. So he misled me.

I don't know of another trade area that we are going to have more difficulty in working with than in China.

I hope you will lean in and watch that all groups are taken care of on this, and it doesn't just favor one group over another group.

We are going to fight hard against Chris. I met with him on March 18 in my office, and he did not allay my concerns.

I would rather think it was stolen, but we have had that as an ongoing dispute for some period of time.

I hope that we win that case and that we are able to use the offsets to really make this a fair and balanced fight.

At the core of all this we've got to figure out how we hold the cost down of electricity to the consumer.

Transparency and accountability must be transformed from slogans to achievable actions.

This Congress expects better use of the second tranche of TARP funds than was made of the first.

We need a plan that offers hope to markets, and not a plan that raises more questions and more uncertainty.

Treasury has been less than forthcoming in its explanations of what it has accomplished with an allocation of up to $700 billion of taxpayer dollars.

I want to see recidivism cut in half in this country in the next five years, and I want it to start in Kansas.

That was the headline in the Wall Street Journal today.

Given the severity of the economic downturn that we face, and efforts already under way to try to offset the downturn, it is absolutely clear to me that the very last thing we want to do is raise taxes.

It doesn't seem like the idea of raising taxes, is a good idea at this point in time.

It worked, but it was very painful in the process.

Unfortunately, in the midst of our current economic difficulties, there are those who wish to raise taxes using class-warfare rhetoric.

$318 Billion Tax Hit Proposed... doesn't seem to be the mixture of medicines we're talking about.

By increasing taxes on those business owners under the guise of 'taxing the rich,' we are going to end up taxing small business owners who will respond by reducing their business activities.

We also cannot afford, under the rhetoric of eliminating 'tax cuts for the rich,' to increase taxes on income from capital, such as dividends.