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A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

While the budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint, it is, nevertheless, an important guideline for Congress. Once the President's proposed budget is received by Congress on the first Monday of February, Congress generally goes to work on appropriating the funds required.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and get our country working.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.