What's tragic is that so much of this spending is on duplicative or unnecessary care that doesn't improve health outcomes.

Is the Forest Service committed to ensuring robust funding for the Forest Legacy program?

I think the starting point has to be the continued threat to our Nation from international terrorists, specifically Islamic fundamentalists, obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

I would like to commend the Army for its hard work and initiative in developing the Third Generation Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (GEN III ECWCS).

It's like taking a teaspoon of water out of a bathtub while you keep the spigot on at full speed and the bathtub continues to fill up, the spigot of spending, the spigot of government growth.

My reaction is, it's a genuine and sincere effort to try to free up the credit markets and especially to balance the -- and get balance into the real estate markets, which is at the core of the financial problems.

I would like to commend the Army for its hard work and initiative in developing the Third Generation Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (GEN III ECWCS).

The budget as it is proposed essentially nationalizes all income over $250,000, nationalizes health care, nationalizes student loans.

I think there are questions out there that have been raised by the budget that has been presented to us by the administration relative to the ability to build on that confidence.

Where's the restraint in spending? This budget doubles the debt of the federal government in five years, triples the debt of the federal government in 10 years, runs up obviously massive deficits over this period.

I realize that to withdraw at this point is really unfair in many ways, but to go forward and take this position and then find myself sitting there and not being able to do the job the way it should be done on behalf of the President 100…