What is so frustrating about this is, you know the drivers of our debt are the entitlement programs. And yet, you are doing nothing to address that.

I don't know where you are from, but where I come from, most of our jobs come from successful small businesses.

I am concerned. You guys have the veto pen, and I just want to encourage you to not be afraid to take a stand.

The President has presented us with a budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much.

The President has disappointed us all by declining that opportunity. He punted.

Do you think that the tax increases that you are planning on in 2013 on mostly successful small businesses in the investment community in America, on job creators; you think it is not going to impact the economy?

How do we expect to win global competition? How do we expect to create jobs when we are taxing the engine of economic growth and job creation, small businesses, at rates in excess of 50 percent in most states?

I think if you look in this budget, this is possibly the toughest budget that certainly a Democratic President has ever put forward...

the elephant in the room is the tremendous growth of entitlements.

Why did you duck, why are you not taking this opportunity to lead?

One of the biggest threats to the economy is the rapid and seemingly relentless growth of government spending and debt.