"Well, let me just add, as you keep going down, gentlemen, we will need your advocacy for people to understand that we are not sacrificing deficit reduction, which is one of the issues that the FCC was..."
"Well, one thing--and I just, Mr. Carrow, we certainly should not have al-Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan having better communication than we might have."
"CBO's estimate of total spending on coverage expansions in PPACA grew from $938 billion last March to $1.445 trillion."
"Yet, as Mr. Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee last month, he expects the law will cost 800,000 jobs by 2021."
"This is simply not sustainable for my home state, or any other."
"If the intent of reforming the health care system was indeed to bend the cost curve, then it looks like mission accomplished. Unfortunately, we bent it in the wrong direction."
"The true cost of Obamacare is worse than what any of us expected--higher premiums, more federal health spending, fewer jobs."
"Medicare also has potentially 10 to 20 percent of its receipts going out in fraud, so maybe there is something to be said for overhead."
"American families need help now. They need protection from insurance companies dropping their coverage, they need help in providing health coverage for their college students, and they need help to af..."
"If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to create jobs, why repeal the Affordable Care Act, which will add 400,000 jobs a year for the next 10 years?"
"CBO, however, projects that the real cost of the coverage expansions will be $229 billion in 2020 and $245 billion in 2021."
"The real threat to job creation is the threat of repealing this law and going back to a system that stacks the deck against me."
"It is remarkable the heavy presence in that country and especially in Beirut that Hezbollah has, almost as if it is an organized crime force."
"I would urge the administration to do everything possible to increase sanctions, even as the ones that are authorized now are being implemented."
"What assurances can you provide us and what checks do we have to make sure that those dollars don't aid and abet and benefit Hezbollah?"
"I take exception with one of the comments made by one of my colleagues earlier about big oil."
"The public. Absolutely. The United States taxpayers."
"We are not talking about the Gulf of Mexico, OK, where the most two recent leases were leased."
