Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.