"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."
"I think that was a farce, because through step increases, through rewards and bonuses, the payroll went up, and it continues to go up."
"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."
"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 cu..."
"The Republican budget adds almost $9 trillion to the debt over the course of the next 10 years."
"The policies that this president, and in many instances, the Democrats passed, that stabilized the economy, made investments, the stimulus package, stabilized the economy."
"The fact is that this administration told us stimulus plan would keep unemployment from ever rising about 8 percent."
"The fact is that this administration told us its stimulus plan would keep unemployment from ever rising above 8 percent."
"Nothing is more critical to today's economy than restoring real job and business growth in America."
"The president and his party leaders say things are getting better. Yet we continue to hear from families and businesses in our districts who tell us this kind of talk is completely disconnected from r..."