I Am Not For Raising Taxes In

We Know That Appropriators Will Fight These Cutbacks. But By Eliminating Earmarks, We Can Stop The Horse Trading That Grows Agency Budgets.

The Republicans Have Put Together Serious Detailed Counter-proposals When We Have Objected To This Administration's Agenda. And So, I Want To Tell The President And Remind Him Again, We're Not Voting No For Political Expediency. We've Got Our Principles, And We're Going To Stand Up And Defend Those.

We Will Cut Programs, We Will Try To Rein In The Size Of The Bureaucracy. We Will Bring Federal Pay Scales That Have Become So Exaggerated Into Line With Market Rates.

You Know, We Have A Fiscal Train Wreck Before Us. And Unless We Act, And Act Deliberately, We're Not Going To Enable Our Kids To Have What We Have. It's Plain And Simple As That.

A Good Place To Start Is With The Kids ... One Of The Great Founding Principles Of Our Country Was That Children Would Not Be Punished For The Mistakes Of Their Parents. It Is Time To Provide An Opportunity For Legal Residence And Citizenship For Those Who Were Brought To This Country As Children And Who Know No Other Home.