Mike Lee actually said...

"I feel so strongly about the fact that we need a balanced budget amendment that I've even written a book about it."

"Each of us, when we're sworn in as Members of Congress, are required to take an oath to 'uphold the Constitution and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same'."

"This isn't a situation in which we can just do nothing because doing nothing will bring about a situation in which we're forced to make abrupt, draconian, and very painful cuts."

"The problem is that that power has been abused to the point where we're now $15 trillion in debt."