As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.

Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

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.

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.