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We Know That Appropriators Will Fight These Cutbacks. But By Eliminating Earmarks, We Can Stop The Horse Trading That Grows Agency Budgets.

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.

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.

It Is My Hope That I Can Stand Before You In Two Years And Report Back That Our Side, As Well As The President's, Found Within Us The Ability To Set Differences Aside, To Provide Relief To So Many Millions Of Americans Who Simply Want Their Life To Work Again.

Again, The American People Expect Us To Do What They Are Doing. It's Tightening The Belt, It's Learning How To Do More With Less. That's A Reality Today, And We've Got To Do That In Order To Get The Private Sector Growing.