The level of hunger in the United States is shameful given our country's wealth and resources.

I have fought over the last 2 years to stop the Administration's unfortunate efforts to inject politics into the procurement system.

personnel is policy.

I think that's something that should be within the scope of the discussion.

If we can enhance the private sector pick-up of these costs before we put them on the Federal budget, everyone comes out ahead.

I think the real moral is going to be picking very flexible strategies.

I at least believe that an enormous effort should be placed on enhancing the private-sector financing of these services as the top priority.

It is simply not a time at which we can commit the taxpayer to additional mandatory spending commitments without thinking very hard about it.

I want to make sure that we can actually develop a piece of legislation that we can pass so we can start moving that football forward.

I mean, put yourself in the position of a business owner trying to comply with currently 15,000 pages, and that is just simply going to grow, and then take a look at the cost equation.

I think we just established that the level of debt and deficit is a security threat.