Pat Ryan

How do we expect to win global competition? How do we expect to create jobs when we are taxing the engine of economic growth and job creation, small businesses, at rates in excess of 50 percent in most states?

Why did you duck, why are you not taking this opportunity to lead?

we cannot tax, borrow and spend our way to a prosperous future.

I think tens of millions of people--this is my personal opinion, but it is informed by anecdotal conversations with employers over the State of Wisconsin and outside expert actuarial witnesses that think we are going to have tens and tens…

the recent experience of Europe teaches us that we cannot keep making unaffordable promises without eventually hitting a real debt limit.

Endless borrowing is not a strategy. Spending restraint must come first.

about three-quarters of Americans would see their taxes increase.

One of the biggest threats to the economy is the rapid and seemingly relentless growth of government spending and debt.

I would just simply say we are here in a CR because the majority last year didn't pass a budget at all, nothing.

this plan would cut in half taxes on the richest 1 percent of Americans.

I find that drastic middle class tax hike would be insufficient to put the Federal budget on a sustainable path.

What we are doing right now is our best; it is our first effort at getting fiscal control under this place.

I would urge the Congress not only to talk about total budget numbers, but also to think hard about the various programs and tax provisions.

Congresman Ryan's proposal does not take into account that Medicare was enacted in 1965 because private insurance companies did not want to offer insurance to older people and people with disabilities.

his Roadmap for America's Future would eliminate the guaranteed benefits available to all beneficiaries under Medicare

I hope that, in addressing our long-term fiscal challenges, the Congress and the Administration will undertake reforms to the government's tax policies and spending priorities.

Nobody in this Congress should be playing political games when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States.

The U.S. economy continues to suffer from slow growth, and unemployment remains unacceptably high.

Washington is creating much of this uncertainty.

one of the best things we can do for short-term economic growth is to put out a plan that actually stabilizes our fiscal picture.

If we get this wrong, and if credibility is diminished because of these moves, and if expectations form around price increases, then we do have a big interest rate problem.

Continued uncertainty about our economic future is hindering job creation today.

Washington is creating much of this uncertainty, and the explosive growth of our federal debt is by far the biggest source of this uncertainty.

So I think we need additional fiscal stimulus to drive unemployment down, we shouldn't be so worried about inflation in places outside of our country so much, and I think we've got to worry about jobs here at home.

Let's not gamble with the full faith and credit of our nation.