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It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.