27 Quotes by Scott Milburn

The president's insistence on spending restraint resulted in both the highway and energy bills coming in far less than originally proposed by Congress.

The president signed into law a $100 million increase for the corps for the current fiscal year compared to the previous year's level.

Currently the federal government does share royalties with coastal statesmore than $3 trillion to date, in fact. Changing this amount only increases the budget deficit and diminishes the benefit the rest of the nation receives from these national resources.

There's going to be savings. And as the president said, he's committed to finding savings and we're in the process of finding savings.

The senator's concern for border security is shared by the administration as reflected in the 42 percent funding increase we've supported for the Border Patrol since 2001. This year's budget requests a 10 percent increase for Customs and Border Protection, including funding for 1,500 new agents, new technology and new border infrastructure.

As GAO states in its letter, OMB did not advise agencies to withhold funds and OMB staff specifically instruct agencies not to improperly withhold funding in the case of cancellations.

As we move forward we will of course be looking for opportunities to find savings on top of what we have already proposed.

It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit.

It should be no surprise that two different organizations, using different analysts, different methodologies and different assumptions come to different math at the end of the day. Where there's no difference, however, is that both OMB and CBO forecast that we meet the president's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009.