I think this is the best budget you could put together given the circumstances.

I am 100 percent behind you on what this budget does to maintain the maximum Pell grant for students.

I think it is important that we realize that mature decisions were made in 1990; mature decisions were made in 1993.

I just want to throw that out there if that is something we need to continue to look at.

we should not be playing political games with the full faith and credit of the United States

we did pass the budget enforcement resolution, which applied for one year, one year, this current fiscal year 2011

But finger pointing doesn't solve problems. Solutions solve problems.

We have a moral imperative in this committee to get this right.

We want people to have jobs in America. We want to have prosperity.

We cannot tax, borrow and spend our way to a prosperous future.

That's a lost decade, as far as I can tell.