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

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

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

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

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

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.

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