The President has to lead. The President has to say, 'This is what I would do to fix this problem.'

we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion over the next 10 years.

The only thing worse than being for this is being against it.

I give him credit for stabilizing the debt, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.

I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.

the risk to this country is untenable. Absolutely untenable.

What we need, I believe, is an entire package with everything on the table that deals with fundamental reform of our tax system.

100 percent of GDP is too high.

the debt is stabilized, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.

I applaud the President for those proposals. I wish there had been even more.

I do not envy the job of House and Senate members over the next few years. It is going to be very painful to be a Member of Congress because you are going to have to cut every year.