It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.