Many of my Republican friends are in favor of cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting Medicaid, cutting nutrition programs for kids, while providing huge tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Many of my Republican colleagues believe that what is best for the country in the future is basically to cut, cut, cut, cut, cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, nutrition, et cetera, et cetera.

Instead of losing 800,000 jobs a month, as we were during the final months of the Bush administration, we are now creating some 250,000 jobs a month and are seeing steady job growth over the last 58 months.

According to the World Economic Forum, we are now in twelfth place. That is not anything that anybody on this committee should be proud of.

I happen to believe not only that we should not cut Social Security, but we should expand benefits.

The wealthiest people and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well.

Instead of having a record-breaking $1.4 trillion deficit, as we did when President Bush left office in January 2009, the Federal deficit has been cut by more than two-thirds.

some of my Republican colleagues are looking forward to either cutting Social Security or moving to the privatization of Social Security.

In my view, on the other hand, if we are serious about rebuilding the disappearing middle class, reducing income and wealth inequality, and strengthening Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, we need a budget that creates millions of…

At a time when more Americans are unable to go to college, the President proposes the first two years of community college to be free, that is exactly the right thing to do.

Our job is to protect the middle class. Let us get to work doing that.

The top one percent own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

At a time when 20 percent of our kids are living in poverty, the President's budget triples the Child Care Tax Credit to $3,000 per child and makes an additional billion dollars' investment in Head Start exactly the right thing to do.

We are witnessing the Robin Hood principle in reverse.

I have a feeling that the budget that your Committee majority will bring forth... will not be good for working families.

But it is my understanding also for many it is free. Is that correct? For lower-income people it might be free?

In my view, these cost overruns are a prime example of wasteful spending that only benefits the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country.

you hold people accountable.