I think that was a farce, because through step increases, through rewards and bonuses, the payroll went up, and it continues to go up.

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 do not know how one can claim that this budget achieves these things when this is something Congress already passed.

Then all of a sudden we are going to have a pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan before 10 years is over, this money is all of a sudden a spending cut, it is savings?

If these wars are unpaid for, then how can you claim savings from them?

This Budget is a step in the right direction.

We will continue to invest in improving global health and food security so that we address the root causes of conflict and security threats.

This budget is, quote, 'more a platform for the president's re-election campaign than a legislative proposal.'

The president's ongoing refusal to advance serious solutions to our nation's fiscal challenges represents a stunning dereliction of duty.

Instead of working with us though, the president has demonized our ideas to stave and strengthen health and retirement security programs.

The real source of dysfunction in the Senate comes from members of the president's own party who have been unwilling for almost three years now to go on record in support of his budgets.