The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.