the path that our Tea Party Republican colleagues are taking on the fiscal year 2011 budget with ideology, mean-spirited, or just plain dumb, cuts.

this is a total waste of taxpayer dollars, and an example of Congressional pork, and it should be eliminated.

I voted against the deficit-busting bill.

Nowhere in my statement did I say the budget deficit is not a spending problem.

I am going to paraphrase a popular Tea Party slogan that goes something like this, quote, the Federal Government doesn't have a revenue problem, it had as a spending problem.

The federal government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.

The budget deficit is not a spending problem.

I can't make a decision in isolation, so I look to all of us to put everything on the table.

Is it possible to reduce the federal deficit to responsible levels without capping or cutting defense spending and without looking at the tax perks that many corporations and lobbyists have been successful in getting?

His record to me would indicate that he has voted to add trillions of dollars to the national debt.

I hope the gentleman's misrepresentation of my comments does not reflect the manner in which this committee will conduct itself in the future.

I think we need to be careful of gutting domestic investments in education, infrastructure, and R&D in the next decade.