We cannot continue on this course.

Our gross Federal debt after rising $6 trillion in the last 4 years will rise another $9 trillion by 2023.

I resent the fact that people suggest that those of us who have a different view of how to help poor people somehow do not care about them.

Tax increases equals spending cuts, and you have a balanced plan.

This budget does nothing to effectively help them, but continues a tax-and-spend policy that has not worked.

We have no higher obligation as lawmakers than to protect the financial security of the Republic.

What this budget provides is the old-time Democratic religion of tax and spend.

Compassion and help for the poor and struggling amounts to more than just borrowing money and sending out more money in the form of checks.

As the law requires, the Senate not only has a legal but a moral duty to present the taxpayers with a plan.

I believe that budget should balance. We should balance it at least within 10 years.

So it has been now 4 years since the Democratic-led Senate produced a budget.

We have the weakest recovery since the end of World War II.