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.

President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

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

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

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

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

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.