Political Quotes

“Well, that is exactly the way I see it. And I voted for the plan that was submitted by the House, which actually does get to a balance of our budget, and the plans of three of our Senate colleagues from our side of the aisle whose plans also get to a balance of the budget. I voted in favor of all of those. But not one Democrat in the Senate--not one Democrat--cast one vote in favor of any one budget, whether it was a Republican budget, whether it was the President's budget. Yet the President goes to Ohio today and gives a speech for 54 minutes--and it was supposed to be a big speech on the economy--and I heard nothing new, nothing we had not heard before, no new ideas other than to spend more money, at a time when we are $15 trillion in debt, and adding to that by the minute. The President did make one interesting statement. He said some of the regulations that are coming out--he said all the regulations are not good. Well, who can do anything about it but the President; his regulations. And he has over 1,000 new regulations that have come out under his administration that are called economically significant regulations--regulations that have an impact to the economy of over $100 million. Those regulations, all of that redtape is putting people out of work. It provides so much uncertainty to the economy as to what is the next regulation that is coming out, where businesses do not have the certainty to go hire people. What is going to happen with the health care law?…”