This budget extends the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for everybody earning below $250,000 a year.

I have described the President's budget as a 'good beginning.'

there is going to have to be flexibility on how the funds are used.

this budget, as it is presently constructed, passes on to our children a Nation which they will not be able to afford and which will potentially drive this country into bankruptcy.

I have a lot of hope that we can find consensus on this issue.

we are essentially putting on our children's backs a debt which they can never get out from underneath.

I think what we have done is destroyed the ability of the Congress to come together.

If we had not done the first TARP, we would have faced an outright economic collapse.

I believe that build-up of debt fundamentally threatens the economic security of this country. I believe it in my bones.

We are on, as a Nation, an unsustainable fiscal course.

I have been part of a group that was dubbed by the media 'the Gang of 10'... that advocated a comprehensive approach to reducing our dependence on foreign energy.