"I realized the severity of our national financial crisis and the damaging impact it will have on my kids and my grandkids if responsible action is not taken today."
"Balancing the budget, demanding accountability, demanding results, promoting efficiency. These principles are at the core of the success in the private sector."
"I believe the Federal Government fundamentally has a spending problem."
"I strongly support reforming our tax code to make it simpler, to make it fairer, and to promote economic growth."
"The growth in entitlement spending is the primary driver of this unsustainable spending and our escalating debt crisis."
"We must enact cost-saving reforms to these programs to preserve them for future generations without weakening the critical services."
"Our Federal budget has been balanced just five times in the past 50 years. This practice has resulted in our present $16 trillion-plus debt and it is simply unsustainable."
"I recently introduced the Balanced Budget Accountability Act which would terminate member pay after April 15th if our respective chamber does not pass a budget."
"I believe we need to take this principle even one step further...by tying it to a balanced budget and making the performance for pay standard permanent."
"Our federal budget has been balanced in only five of the past 50 years."
"Do we have a unified approach in the United States Government to cybersecurity in this country and infrastructure protection?"