Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.