Let's not say that we are only for clean debt limits when, just a year ago, the President was fine with attaching things on debt limit.

I don't see how you can square Mr. Carney... the debt goes from $13 trillion to $26 trillion.

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?

you guys have saved the auto industry.

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.

But I sincerely wonder about that.

We feel that it is our responsibility to do things differently, to lead where the President has fallen short.

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.

Nevertheless, this President has made our spending problems much worse with policies such as the failed stimulus and the new health care entitlement.

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.

There has been a lot of talk about the politics of taking on these challenges, and the conventional wisdom is that the politically safe thing to do, I suppose, is to do nothing.