It is a terrible message to send to our young people.

the one thing that we shouldn't do is just look at what I think is an artificial number of $100 billion.

An overwhelming majority of my constituents do not want this Congress to cut federal initiatives that serve them.

As a new Congressman, I take these budget negotiations seriously, knowing that my constituents are relying on me to share with Congress their personal stories and to make sure that they be heard over the political rhetoric that often…

My constituents in the South Shore, Cape, and islands in Massachusetts have very strong opinions on how their taxpayer money should be spent.

Most of my constituents wanted the budget to reflect their top priority. And amazingly and not surprisingly, however, that is job creation.

the federal government should be funding these initiatives. They save American lives and create American jobs.

Most of my constituents want this budget to reflect their top priority: job creation.

Cutting education priorities is the wrong move at the wrong time.

Reducing benefits would not reduce the deficit, but it would greatly harm our seniors.

I am concerned and have shared on the floor as well the fact that people like Mark Zandi from Moody's... would cost us 700,000 lost jobs by 2012.