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Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.