Tim Huelskamp

We must look for practical ways to lower costs and control the runaway government spending, which represents one of the greatest threats to our national security.

Congress needs to accept the same financial realities that families and businesses are facing all across the country.

Government spending is out of control. Our Federal Government is too large, spends too much money and is out of touch with the needs of the American people.

As a strong fiscal conservative, I know that our Nation is on an untenable economic path.

Our Nation is critically near the tipping point of ceding our leadership in space exploration for our future generations.

The President's proposed budget is a substantial departure from the authorization bill that he signed into law in October.

We must stop the spending insanity.

Raising the retirement age would mean an immediate benefit cut for the men and women of America who toil on their feet for 50 years.

Entitlement programs along with other mandatory spending consume roughly 60 percent of the Federal budget.

Ending these government takeovers of private-sector functions and questionable line items should be the first things we address when we cut this budget.

A State-centered Medicaid program could provide better care for beneficiaries at lower costs.

America will be forced to rely solely on Russia to get our astronauts to the International Space Station.

I urge you to keep Social Security benefits off the table in this budget debate, because that's exactly where they belong.

I rise in support of this amendment. The American people have spoken. They demand that Washington stop its out-of-control spending now, not sometime in the future. And despite what the administration tells you, every last dime in this bill…

This amendment, as we know, would strike the climate change czar, the global warming czar, also known as the cement czar, as well. Mr. Chairman, all kidding aside, my question I would have is: What is the President afraid of? This is not…

the President has met his pledge to cut the deficit in half. And, of course, when he made that pledge, he said nothing about tying it to economic growth.

A vote on the debt limit is a referendum on past spending by your administration and previous Congresses.

I encourage the President to step up and provide an opportunity before April to provide a real proposal to help reach an agreement.

I understand that. But you also agree that it is unsustainable to have a $768 billion deficit.

That is what bothers me, how the President can stand up, and you can stand here in this document, and claim that you are cutting the deficit in half, when you did not.

Sustainable deficits seems like an oxymoron to me.

The path is unsustainable. Your path in this budget is unsustainable. The deficit is not sustainable.

Sustainable deficits do not work. Primary balance is a figment of our imagination.

I find it reprehensible that we continue to talk about investments and other things when we are pulling money from people's pockets to try to give it to somebody else.

Only in Washington could you run a deficit and claim it is balance, and somehow use the word balance.