“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.” IfsWayProblemGovernmentRunningSocialDealsSupportSecurityLimitsDebtSpendingPilotsFederal GovernmentSocial SecurityMedicareMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Allen West
“The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.” PeopleWantDealsSpendingMore MoneySpending Time Author:Terry Gilliam
“The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.” ActionEnergyDealsEnvironmentSpendingAdministrationLegacyIrresponsibleLiabilityLooming Author:Lawrence Wilkerson
“It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.” TryingGovernmentPresidentDealsEffortSituationShameEmbraceDebtSpendingOperationsCeilingsDebt Ceiling Author:Mitch McConnell
“It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.” UseProblemPresidentDealsShameCongressSpendingOur FutureConfrontingExcessive Spending Author:Mitch McConnell
“The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.” IfsYearsCountryProblemGovernmentLastsDealsIssuesFourSpendingFour YearsRevenueConfrontingExcessive Spending Author:Mitch McConnell