I am willing to vote to raise the debt limit. But I am only willing to do that if we are going to make the cuts in spending and the changes in process that got us here.
I have to share the concern and disappointment that several of my colleagues have already expressed about what I see as a real lack of leade...
The refusal to drill domestically has cost tens of thousands of high-paying jobs and billions of dollars in lost revenue to the Government.
The experience in Spain cannot be ignored, and the Solyndra, the $535 million loan that the U.S. Government made, seems to be failing alread...
I just think it is really important that we do not leave that out when that is what is getting people jobs today.
I really think the American people want us to make the big, tough decisions that assure us that it will restore a fiscally sustainable path.
My concern is that ever-bigger government, however you fund it, leads to slower economic growth and lesser job creation and a lower standard...
we ought to really equate and think about the total tax burden by looking at the total amount of spending.
if you look at many traditional measures of monetary policy, we are currently embarking on a very unusual and, it seems to me, dangerous cou...
It is my fear that they will be very successful at increasing inflation expectations, quite likely increasing inflation itself.
the Treasury could, nevertheless, ensure that those people holding the marketable securities of this Government would receive their interest...