Rand Paul

The rich can bear more of the burden. Why don't we have the rich pay the full cost of their Medicare and have the rich take reduced Social Security benefits?

I would like to know why the president doesn't want to balance the budget or doesn't want a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

I don't personally trust the body of Congress to do what they say or any of their promises. That's why I would only trust it if we actually amended the Constitution to say you have to balance your budget.

Unfortunately, see, the other side is not coming to us. They have been putting ads on TV saying we're going to push grandma off a cliff.

But I would say the area where I think we could compromise, if the Democrats are insistent that rich bear more of the burden, let's do it on the benefits side, not on the tax side.

I want to have that full-throated debate and discussion both in Congress and in the public -- 75 percent of the public does want a balanced budget amendment.

Well, we're listening.

I, as well as many Americans, am concerned about the future of our country. I am concerned we may not be able to continue to pay our bills. I am concerned one day in the near future we could look like Greece. I do not want to see America…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I agree with Senator Johnson. I come to the floor in support of this movement, which is that we should be talking about what America says we should be talking about--the debt. Yesterday, the President went on national television and…

the balanced budget amendment is interesting when you look at polls and ask the American public: Do you approve of what Congress is doing? Do you approve of congressional action? Do you think they are doing a good job? It is actually 14…

I think one of the alarming things we see is that on the course we are taking now, if we do nothing dramatic to reform the process--if we don't pass the balanced budget amendment--within about a decade, the budget will be entirely consumed…

What does the Senator say to those who say that statutory caps would work, something like Gramm-Rudman or something like pay-as- you-go? What is his answer?

From that same article, it is interesting that he talks about what happens if interest rates rise. For every point of an interest rate rising, it adds $140 billion. So he talks about getting back to the historic average of 5.4 percent…

And I think what is interesting, if you look at this and you really look at polling data and say: Who is for the balanced budget amendment, it goes across all party lines. If you look at Independents, Democrats, if you look at Republicans…

Later this morning we will be debating and voting on two resolutions dealing with Libya. The first one, H.J. Res. 68, has been said to be one that literally endorses exactly what the President has been doing, and I agree with that: Even…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a resolution that endorses the policies that have been going on for 4 months. Not only has the Congress basically been strong in opposition to what has been going on, the American…

Unfortunately, I think the next resolution, H.R. 2278, isn't much different because it has too many exceptions. It says: Deny funding. But there are too many exceptions, and the exceptions are to allow the very things the President is…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rarely speak on the House floor, and almost never have I ever come to the floor two times in one day to speak on this one issue. But this is my fourth trip to the floor today on this issue because I…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of this rule, although I have a lot of complaints about how we deal with the issue of war. This is a debate that should have gone on 4 months ago, before the war was started. And if we…

I still can't get over how we're going to spend more money and we're going to save money by spending more money.

Some of us believe more in the ability of government to cure problems and some of us believe more in the ability of private charity to cure these problems.

I would also probably ask if you've got a million dollars in the bank.

Should the government be the first one lining up so the kids can get the million dollars that granddad has?

You can't just say that we're going to spend $2 billion, why not spend $4 billion or why not spend $10 billion to save more money?