The United States Senate has failed to pass a budget in over three years.

I believe it will require both political parties to work together to find common ground and right this fiscal ship.

Let's summon the courage and vision to choose freedom, to choose prosperity, and to determine our destiny.

If the president continues to put politics before principle--or party before country, as he often accuses others of doing--our economy will suffer.

The difference between knowing what's right and doing what's right is courage, and the president, I'm sorry to say, lost his.

Any sudden tax hike would hurt our economy, so this fall--before the election--the House of Representatives will vote to stop the largest tax increase in American history.

We thought that was especially important, so there is a debt limit that is set, but there is never any sort of measure or metric as to how high we want the future, our excess obligations stemming from some of these programs to be.

Unfortunately, the current leaders in the Democrat-controlled Senate and at the White House have failed to step forward with solutions that match the magnitude of our challenges.

I hesitate to say this, but, Dr. Rivlin I think I agreed with everything you said in your opening statement.

Make no mistake, the sequester is not meant to be policy.

The balanced approach, I hear this quite a bit these days. The President already has a pretty steep tax increase in his budget.