We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

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.