Pat Ryan

This budget takes the latter approach. It represents a very clear threat to the health and retirement security of America's seniors.

If we don't come up with a plan for this country, we are going to pull the rug out from under people who are relying on these benefits.

this thing has been fact-check a million times.

This Budget is a step in the right direction.

It breaks the President's promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term.

This is the fourth budget from this president with a trillion dollar deficit each year.

This budget is, quote, 'more a platform for the president's re-election campaign than a legislative proposal.'

I do not know how one can claim that this budget achieves these things when this is something Congress already passed.

The bottom line is the president was elected at $9 trillion in debt and we are going to grow it to over $26 trillion under his plan, under his numbers, and I think that is fundamentally wrong.

It takes a pass on reigning in government growth.

We have heard a lot of excuses from this administration for why the president broke his promise, but what we have not heard is any semblance of accountability.

This budget, quote, '[takes] a pass on reining in government growth.'

We know our government is making promises to people it simply cannot keep.

The policies that this president, and in many instances, the Democrats passed, that stabilized the economy, made investments, the stimulus package, stabilized the economy.

I remain committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle wherever common ground can be reached.

I feel like I am living in an alternative reality here, because I just left the Armed Services Committee, in which Secretary Panetta, head of the Joint Chiefs, were presenting $500 billion worth of cuts to the military.

If these wars are unpaid for, then how can you claim savings from them?

Give us a date when we would actually have a balanced budget, not a percent of GDP, but actually spend less in one year than we are taking in.

it breaks the president's promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.

The President's ongoing refusal to advance serious solutions to our nation's fiscal challenges represents a stunning dereliction of duty.

Then all of a sudden we are going to have a pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan before 10 years is over, this money is all of a sudden a spending cut, it is savings?

The Republican budget adds almost $9 trillion to the debt over the course of the next 10 years.

this budget is quote 'More a platform for the president's reelection campaign than a legislative proposal,' end quote.

The real source of dysfunction in the Senate comes from members of the president's own party who have been unwilling for almost three years now to go on record in support of his budgets.

The president's ongoing refusal to advance serious solutions to our nation's fiscal challenges represents a stunning dereliction of duty.