"After years of overspending by both parties, it’s time to make tough choices, just as any family does when times are tough, even among very good things. We have to cut even from programs that are good, as difficult as it is, recognizing that the values we are fighting for in this debate are more fundamental than the survival of any one program. We need to face that fact that we don’t have the money. It is not an American value to borrow from others to pay for programs we don’t need and can’t afford.  And it is not an American value to put off tough decisions because you refuse to say no to things you want. If there’s any good news in this debate, it’s that we’re finally beginning to talk about how much to cut in this town instead of how much to spend. But we’re going to need more people to join the fight. We’ll need Democrats to join us. Above all, we need a President who gets it."

                         Senator Mitch McConnell

February 14, 2011

Senator McConnell on Growing our Economy

Nov 14 2012

President Should Offer an Economic Plan That Has a Realistic Chance of Becoming Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement today regarding the need for presidential leadership on a specific and serious plan to solve the fiscal crisis, a plan that can be signed into law:

“With a potentially devastating tax hike set to strike nearly every American at the end of the year, Republicans have implored the President to put the campaign rhetoric aside and propose a balanced plan of the kind that Republicans have repeatedly said we could support. Such a plan would require both parties to do something they would not ordinarily do without either harming the economy or compromising our core principles. The scope of this challenge calls for presidential leadership. That’s what the American people should be able to expect, and that’s what Republicans are calling for. Republicans have shown a willingness to find common ground. It’s now the President’s turn to propose a specific plan that includes meaningful entitlement reforms to strengthen and protect these programs for future generations, and that can actually attract the support of both parties as that is the only type of plan that has a realistic chance of becoming law.”

 

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