"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
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