I understand the position of the religious community on this issue.

In my opinion, this committee commits a massive injustice by trying to pretend that the views of millions of women across this country are meaningless.

The pill has a profound impact on their well-being, far more than any man in this room can possibly know.

That is not what the Ryan budget proposes, I would point out, although there are some people who have suggested that we need to cut faster now.

Mr. Chairman, if I could just take 5 seconds, as part of it, I think we should remember that some the adjustments he made was to tax capital gains and dividends at the 28 percent level, the same rate that the bugs driver was paying there…

Again, welcome, Mr. Secretary. Having participated in some of those rounds, my sense was they basically collapsed because of the fundamental issue that we are debating right here in this committee, which is whether or not to take a…

I would suggest that if we could have a partner in coming to that balanced approach that we talked about, we would be able to tackle some of these things.

This budget represents a plan. It represents a responsible plan, a good plan.

What you see here is after the 1993 budget agreement when the top marginal rate was raised to 39.6 percent, you saw over 20 million jobs created during that period after the 2001-2003 tax cuts, so-called Bush tax cuts, where they reduced…

Fundamentally we have got to figure out a way to come together to resolve these issues.

The Simpson-Bowles commission, the bipartisan commission, set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their 10 year window.

I think what the president has proposed is that we want to achieve a net of $1.5 trillion in additional revenue, and doing it in a way that protects middle income taxpayers, but does ask the folks at the very top to pay more.

This is not about the politics of envy or class warfare, this about how do we solve a deficit problem in a way that asks for shared responsibility.

I think what we see here in the president's budget is a responsible approach

why should we fund two different agencies that aren't obviously communicating with each other on an issue of this importance?

I think after your testimony in the Senate yesterday that you are already battle-tested.

that balance is what our Republican colleagues have objected to

This isn't just my opinion and that of these bipartisan groups--economists like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have also argued against immediate spending cuts that will jeopardize our economic recovery.