"We are spending far more money than we take in, which means that any additional expenditures that are made--and this is an additional expenditure that is being proposed here, correct?"
"We are borrowing money from China to give back to China to improve industrial energy efficiency, which will then drive down production costs to Chinese firms."
"There is some speculation that, God forbid, they are going to suggest that we raise taxes and, therefore, burden the American people even more."
"Where does the administration propose cutting? What program is less important than us giving this what many of us would call foreign aid to China?"
"It just seems to me you are going to have a hard sell explaining to the American people why we ought to be using U.S. tax dollars to fund something like this."
"I don't know if you are aware or not or have read the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive Report on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage, but China is one of the most ..."
"We have a trade deficit with China right now. Is that correct? In other words, we are importing a whole lot more from them."
"We don't know what the so-called Super Committee is going to do, what they are going to recommend."
"Fulfilling a campaign promise at the expense of American national security interests is, at best, strategic neglect."
"Saying that Iraq is secure, stable, and self-reliant... does not make it so."
"I am very concerned by the President's recent announcement of a complete withdrawal by the end of the year."