"I don't think that there is any serious debate over the urgency of these challenges."
"The improvement in Senate-related campaign finance disclosure that would result from the passage of S. 219 is long overdue."
"Senate candidates, however, willfully remain stuck in the Dark Ages, filing their disclosure reports on paper."
"Nevertheless, this President has made our spending problems much worse with policies such as the failed stimulus and the new health care entitlement."
"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."
"We feel that it is our responsibility to do things differently, to lead where the President has fallen short."
"But I sincerely wonder about that."
"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."
"The way we want to build on it is repeal it and then go in a different direction."
"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."
"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?"