One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.
In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply to Congress.
Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.
I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.
When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.
If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.
Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Foreign aid, though less than 1% of the annual federal budget, is often a hard case to make to constituents who are rightfully worried about domestic and economic issues.