It is my strong belief that in the last two decades, thanks to the efforts in the entire readiness scenario to better prepare our men and women in uniform to perform battlefield medicine has saved a lot of lives.

most politicians don't like to raise taxes. And most politicians don't like to cut benefits that have currently accrued a certain people, but at the end of the day when you have a trillion dollar deficit as far as the eye can see…

Republicans and Democrats have to start behaving more like Americans in deciding what we have got to do now to solve the problems today rather than kick those--that can down the road and put it on future generations.

I believe I have heard from more than one of my colleagues on the other side that it only helped the millionaires and the billionaires.

There is a reason why we are in this fix right now. And we can blame it on taxes.

Make no mistake, if we continue down this reckless path, CBO confirms that we will face the severe threat of a fiscal crisis, which will negatively impact every single American.

The money is on the mandatory side of spending.

the best thing to do is do nothing because it gets cut on its own in about five or six short years.

There is enough stink on this deficit and debt issue to go around this room and around the Congress and around previous Congresses and previous Presidents, left and right.

It should be deeply unsettling to all of us here in this room that Fiscal Year 2020 will be the first year since fiscal 2012 that the deficit will eclipse a trillion.

We simply must start making tough budgetary decisions in order to put our country on a responsible fiscal path and deliver on our duty to the American people.

So the point of my remarks here is to call on the Congress to do its job.

I think that the bill is shortsighted in that it only looks at one side of the ledger.

I am very concerned about the environment and how we are good stewards of that.

We oftentimes have regulations that prevent any kind of management or work on the forests, which exacerbates the cycle of seeing these forests go up in flames.

I am saying if we are going to do accounting, I think we should take that into the equation because it is all part of the carbon cycle.

This action effectively stripped their waiver to circumvent local and state approval.

Today's hearing presents an opportunity for us to have a serious conversation about the need to restore the principles of federalism in the budget process.