I Am Hopeful For The American People

What The President Announced Yesterday, Is That Somehow Magically, If We Just Continue To Prime The Pump Of Taxpayer Dollars, We're Going To See Magically An Economic Recovery.

I Just Am A Believer...that There Are Some Things That Happen For A Reason...we May Not Be Able To Really Discern It Now...[but] Given The Perspective Of Time, I Think We're Going To Be Able To Look Back At This, And What Seemed Really Bad At The Time May Turn Out To Be Really Good.

We Will Cut Programs, We Will Try To Rein In The Size Of The Bureaucracy. We Will Bring Federal Pay Scales That Have Become So Exaggerated Into Line With Market Rates.

A Good Place To Start Is With The Kids ... One Of The Great Founding Principles Of Our Country Was That Children Would Not Be Punished For The Mistakes Of Their Parents. It Is Time To Provide An Opportunity For Legal Residence And Citizenship For Those Who Were Brought To This Country As Children And Who Know No Other Home.

The American People Elected Us Here To Cut Spending So We Can Create An Environment For Jobs In America. The House Has Acted. We Have Demonstrated That We Want To See Spending, Discretionary Spending, Brought Down To Levels Of 2008. We've Seen No Counteraction. We Have Seen No Position That Has Been Expressed By The Other Side At All.