Jim DeMint

The Arab Spring has been rightly celebrated throughout the world as a beginning of a new day throughout much of the Middle East.

The resolution encouraged the full participation of women in the political process in Saudi Arabia.

It is a complex opportunity that we have in the Middle East. I wish it were so simple as to remove a dictator, let people vote, and we would be moving ahead.

Our debt is unsustainable.

The Fed has continued to expand its balance sheet with multiple rounds of quantitative easing.

Are we concerned that we are setting the stage for that to happen, though, in effect?

It is a very difficult time, and I appreciate your calmness through the storm here.

Is this something we can really control at this point?

Thank you Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member DeMint, and Members of the Subcommittee, for the invitation to speak today.

Frankly, I'm so tired of his speeches it's going to be hard for me to watch.

Instead of threatening to raise taxes on job creators along Main Street, we need to lower the cost of capital to increase business investment.

Another 800,000 jobs will be saved this decade merely by calling a halt to the President's new national health care law.

America deserves better than a second-rate economy that is held up to ridicule by other nations.

Passing the three pending trade agreements will create 250,000 new American jobs.

When the economy is headed in the wrong direction, common sense dictates you change course.

Mr. President, America is fair. It has been patient, more than patient. But after two and a half years, enough is enough.

When the country is headed in the wrong direction, common-sense dictates that you should change course.

Folks, we have got to hold the line. We have got to stand strong. We can't let down the people who elected us last November.

Folks, we've got to hold the line. We've got to stand strong. We can't let down the people who elected us last November.

The Administration's economic policies keep businesses guessing what onerous burdens await them.

The Senate will soon be reconsidering the Workforce Investment Act.

By the Obama Administration's own standards, its stimulus plan has failed spectacularly to create jobs.

The only sure-fire training and skill development program I know of is actually having a job.

I urge Republicans and Democrats in both Houses of Congress to seize this opportunity.

The best job training programs are meaningless if there are no jobs available for their graduates.