"Thank you for talking."
"I would just like to ask you if you would be willing to work with me, and I know Senator Wyden is interested in this on the Finance Committee as well, in a general look at how to do cliff smoothing."
"I am particularly grateful to them with their work."
"As most viewers will understand, the Budget Committee has very specific responsibilities related to the actual budget process."
"The program's financing gap can be more than fully addressed without cutting benefits."
"There is no mandate."
"Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to be in 2012?"
"Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, ..."
"Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fairly constant over all of those years."
"And healthcare spending has gone up even more. Does that also relate to an aging population?"
"My Republican colleagues complain that I, and my Democratic colleagues, aren't concerned about our nation's fiscal situation..."
"the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly raised in this Committee"
"the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side."
"Your mention of can we agree to a debt to GDP level provokes me to remember my work with Chairman Enzi to find a safe debt to GDP level, a glide slope to get there, and guardrails to assure that we're..."
"CBO's long-term budget projections back in 2012 were the last time that CBO showed debt declining as a share of GDP."
"Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it."
"Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3 trillion lower than predicted, which I attribute to improving quality, and movi..."
"Democrats have always pledged to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare."
