Pat Ryan

The way we want to build on it is repeal it and then go in a different direction.

But tax increases affect economic vitality and affect behavior and growth.

Making a multi-year commitment to the principles embodied in the President's Budget will reduce the risk of future crises.

a plan beats no plan.

Despite the urgent need to rein in our runaway debt, the President's budget would add $13 trillion to debt--an unconscionable burden we're imposing on our economy today and our children tomorrow.

If you want to talk about budgets, why don't you look at our 2009 budget, which was the last budget we as a conference actually did, instead of an individual piece of legislation that I introduced?

But I sincerely wonder about that.

We feel that it is our responsibility to do things differently, to lead where the President has fallen short.

There has been a lot of talk about the politics of taking on these challenges, and the conventional wisdom is that the politically safe thing to do, I suppose, is to do nothing.

I will be offering an amendment on the floor in a while to implement what the administration called for, closing some of these tax benefits to the oil industry.

I just wanted to say how disappointed we are that the President has failed to lead on the most important fiscal challenges of our time.

I wonder how long Americans are going to tolerate empty promises about their retirement security.

I think you guys have done--with a horrible economic situation over the past couple of years--have done a pretty good job.

I am going to, in the interest of time, make my opening remarks, as prepared, into the record instead of sharing the full text of my remarks now.

My plan does not reduce. It just slows the rate of growth. These benefits continue increasing year after year after year throughout the century.

I don't see how you can square Mr. Carney... the debt goes from $13 trillion to $26 trillion.

I think this budget, as much as I don't like a lot of it, does make the kind of investments that we need to be competitive.

I don't know where you are from, but where I come from, most of our jobs come from successful small businesses.

the elephant in the room is the tremendous growth of entitlements.

The President has presented us with a budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much.

What is so frustrating about this is, you know the drivers of our debt are the entitlement programs. And yet, you are doing nothing to address that.

I am concerned. You guys have the veto pen, and I just want to encourage you to not be afraid to take a stand.

Do you think that the tax increases that you are planning on in 2013 on mostly successful small businesses in the investment community in America, on job creators; you think it is not going to impact the economy?

The President has disappointed us all by declining that opportunity. He punted.

I think if you look in this budget, this is possibly the toughest budget that certainly a Democratic President has ever put forward...