Mike Enzi

Why is the administration rejecting the Senate amendment and offering a proposal that only gets half the job done?

If we default on that debt, I think we are saying something about how valuable our trust funds are.

I was a strong--I was a cosponsor of the Deficit Commission, the Conrad-Gregg Deficit Commission, and I voted for it.

If the expenditure has already been made, then it cannot be used to do the other piece there.

So it looks like it would put a lot of people out of business and raise prices.

I think the goal should be to find a cut that you could make tomorrow or late this week.

I think we are at that point where people need to be saying, we cannot afford it, even though it might be a good program.

We have been kicking the can down the road and it is time now for action to hold the line on spending.

I am very concerned about the Fed's policy of quantitative easing where it is buying up the government debt.

I think we need a full upheaval in the culture of spending and deficits that is controlling our government processes.

I am really concerned about the rapidly rising debt-to-GDP ratios and watching what is happening over in Europe.

I was a cosponsor of the Conrad-Gregg deficit commission bill and was pleased that we got one, one way or another.

Our Nation's fiscal policy is in tatters. Our projected level of Federal spending growth is unsustainable.

I will always think of him as one of the best of my Senate mentors. Over my 14 years in the Senate, I have learned more from him than almost anyone else.

In order to strengthen the defined benefit system, we need a PBGC that can respond and work with the business community.

I'm open to legislation to improve the PBGC corporate governance--governance similar to the reforms Congress sought in the private companies in that Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

We must undertake reforms that strengthen the PBGC and our retirement system and stay away from the so-called reforms that might politicize or minimize the agency's ability to do its job.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation sends nearly half a billion dollars each month to retirees whose companies' pensions have gone away.

Clearly, the PBGC is facing some rough waters and will continue to face them in the future.

The CPAs come to me in Arizona and say: I can't advise my clients. I don't know what the tax structure will be. So here we are with a new 121 pages of regulation which obviously will affect 50, 60, 80 percent--let's say it only affects 50…

And the Senator from Arizona has not even mentioned the 1099 problem that is supposed to help pay for part of this bill. Yes, which our colleagues just voted down. They voted down a resolution by the Senator from Nebraska that would allow…

So what you are saying is that unless a health care policy provided by an employer is absolutely unchanged totally for an unspecified period of time, then that health insurance policy can be declared invalid by the Department of Health and…

Certainly. The Senator from Iowa is not answering the same question the Senator from Illinois is asking. I did say that when the resolution passes, they would not be able to discriminate on preexisting, they would not be able to impose…

I appreciate the comments by both of the leaders on health care from the other side, but you can't have your own facts. You can't show significant changes as being the only thing that eliminates grandfathering. If you look at the Federal…

I call upon you, Senator Enzi, to do the job your constituents entrusted you with!