Pat Ryan

these programs are growing at such an unsustainable rate that they will crash the economy, bring insolvency, and give us a debt crisis.

I urge you to be bold in developing your FY 2012 Budget Resolution and I am happy to assist in any way I can.

We will vigorously oppose any effort to undermine the integrity of these programs.

the system is going to become insolvent sometime within the next half century.

Just showing political leadership buys us time.

No matter how many times we say it, the Koch Brothers are not a small business, and I do not believe they need taxpayer dollars to fund union-busting campaigns in Wisconsin.

According to the CIA, the United States ranks 42nd globally in income and equality, putting us in the same range as Uganda, Nicaragua, and Iran.

Tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans were a bill of goods sold to us on the promise that they would create jobs, but even before the financial meltdown, they failed, at a cost of trillions of dollars.

I don't think that there is any serious debate over the urgency of these challenges.

If we fail to act, we are inviting a debt crisis with potentially catastrophic consequences.

Unfortunately, we now know these assertions to be untrue.

The improvement in Senate-related campaign finance disclosure that would result from the passage of S. 219 is long overdue.

Senate candidates, however, willfully remain stuck in the Dark Ages, filing their disclosure reports on paper.

I think it could be a major stimulus for the United States if we do it.

This, to me, is a success story. And we ought to, as a Congress, be focusing on the facts and make it work better.

Let's not say that we are only for clean debt limits when, just a year ago, the President was fine with attaching things on debt limit.

The President has disappointed us by presenting us with another budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much.

you guys have saved the auto industry.

Obviously, we dramatically disagree with your interpretation of your budget, but we will leave it at that.

We passed that China currency bill last year with 380 votes, bipartisan support.

What we should be doing is taking the newfound backbone and accelerating and strengthening them.

Agreed. So, last month, Moody's gave us a--they laid out a debt trajectory in which the U.S. Could face a credit rating downgrade by mid-decade.

I question the assertion of primary balance, given that the final arbiter, CBO, on this is using a different set of projections.

Which is the long-term trajectory.

Nevertheless, this President has made our spending problems much worse with policies such as the failed stimulus and the new health care entitlement.