The current system is it is 20 years or nothing. Isn't that correct?

But all of you said in one way, shape, or form the current system is working, why change it?

It is going to cost American lives.

Well, you are showing $30 billion in savings. Like I said, it is not coming out of the air. It is coming from somewhere.

How is that fair or appropriate? Don't we have to do something about that?

I hope you all can help us get rid of the sequester, please.

We cannot make a mistake because it may be 10 years before it manifests itself.

If there's no limit here and there's no definition of the public interest in the statute that these guys are administering, I'm just saying let's define it.

Accept a cap on the export so that we don't end up with Australia.

I cannot understand this discussion that will inevitably lead to higher energy costs.

I think this moment will be looked back at, at a time when Americans say what were you thinking when we have, what I call, America's second chance at manufacturing, but we're going to give it away.

Well, thinking long term it seems to me a simple solution is to cap the amount of exports as a percentage of domestic production.

I subscribe to President Reagan's admonition, 'Trust, but verify.'

I think it is just too easy to say, 'Oh, we are just going to do this for 5 years.'

If we are running huge deficits at a time of relative non-crisis and then when we have a legitimate crisis, we do not have any well to go to.

We have to get control of health care costs, which we spend twice as much per capita than anybody else in the world.

The debt is a problem and the interest rate is a looming serious problem.

To think that we can solve it entirely by cutting programs that are benefitting people who we made commitments to is unrealistic.