Our ability to defend our country in an increasingly dangerous world would be diminished because we would be spending more money paying interest to the bondholders rather than paying to keep the American people safe.

The President's budget proposal, of course, just makes that clear, because it offers more taxes, more spending, and more debt.

We have got to act.

We need to get our fiscal house in order, something that the administration pays lip service to but seems uninterested in working with Republicans to try to address.

It is not that the American people are taxed too little; it is that the Federal Government continues to spend too much and incur too much debt, which in turn creates this unvirtuous cycle.

Only in Washington, DC would Congress pass an $80-billion spending appropriation without any plan as to how it is going to be implemented.

Mr. President, over the years, I have heard President Biden share a favorite expression of his father's. He said his dad would tell you: Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value. Well, there is a…

I think we've been able to find some consensus is on the importance of background checks.

We were able to find some common ground on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

We passed a bill called Fix NICS, which was after the Sutherland Springs shooting.

First of all, Ms. Swearer, do you believe a law-abiding citizen is a threat to public safety because they exercise their Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms?