Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.