The president's plan is to take more from families to spend more in Washington.

We offered a plan to balance the budget. We offered a plan that balances it in 10 years.

The longer we delay fundamental reform, the longer we delay a real recovery, because our national debt is weighing down our country like an anchor.

A complex code does not help anybody but the well-connected.

We cannot keep spending money we just do not have. We need a new approach.

I do not want to dwell on this because I am putting myself on a clock as well so we can get to everybody else here.

We need a new approach in Washington to meet the country's most pressing challenges.

Do you not think that is kind of unfair? Do you not that that puts those successful small businesses at a competitive disadvantage?

We can't keep spending money we don't have.

Do you not think that difference is discriminatory? Do you not think that puts them at a competitive disadvantage?

As Ranking Member Van Hollen noted, during the Clinton Administration I helped negotiate the groundbreaking agreement with Congress to do just that.