"It is nearly impossible to balance the budget when unelected bureaucrats issue costly rules and spend money without proper oversight."
"This resolution would have prohibited the total outlays for fiscal years from exceeding our total receipts."
"Without reforms immediately we will never be able to honor the commitments made by this government to our seniors and those most vulnerable."
"I am infuriated. I am disappointed. I am very frustrated."
"I suggest we have a mechanism of accountability for votes we cast that increase the deficit and debt."
"Washington is sacrificing the livelihood of our children, our grandchildren, and national security of our great country to claim partisan victories for reelection."
"My constituents sent me to Washington to bring common sense solutions to an institution that can't stop swiping the credit card and racking up our national debt."
"Politicians can't fix it. We come up with policy."
"We can no longer leave this issue to chance and just hope it goes away."
"Continuing resolutions are nothing more than lazy rubber stamps of previous years' spending and priorities that do nothing to course correct the devastating path that we are on."
"Eighty-six percent of the reductions that we brought forward were defeated by Republicans."