the optimal size of Government depends in part on how much growth you want to have.

If the administration continues attacking these hardworking, largely unionized American workers... will we even have a U.S. general aviation manufacturing base in the next 10 years?

I think a lot more needs to be done, and I think it can be done.

I am very concerned about the implications, the effects of this huge new series of regulations, most of which emanate from Dodd-Frank.

the changes that you have proposed would reduce the fiscal year 2013 deficit by about two-millionths of a percent.

I am more than a little tired of it.

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

This budget, like the Senate budget, is not a balanced budget, nowhere close to being a balanced budget.

The administration claims that the increased spending and debt will grow the economy, however.

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

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

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

We need to know some facts that I think are indisputable.

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

We are in a danger zone, and there are many ways for us to get out of it, but this budget does not get us out of it.

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.

This budget increases our debt over $8 trillion over 10 years.

Erskine Bowles sat in the chair you are in now and said we face the most predictable economic crisis in our Nation's history.

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

Your budget would require people to send $1.1 trillion more to Washington at a time when the economy is already weak.

I believe we have to have an economy that is growing, creating prosperity, that we need to help poor people get jobs and move forward in their lives, not be dependent, ever dependent on more and more Government checks, handouts, and…

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.

This plan is not balanced, even under the sophisticated understanding of balance propounded by the President.

We are now on a systemically dangerous path of debt.

You do not spend more money than you take in. That is what it means.