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I do, however, applaud the House Freedom Caucus for the work that its done in proposing ideas to get us on a sustainable spending trajectory.

It's just not true. House Freedom Caucus has one member who asked for a vote on something like that, but the Freedom Caucus itself doesn't do that.

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

Do you believe that Republicans in the House and in the Senate are going to vote to raise taxes and nothing else, just raise taxes to save Medicare?

No Republican is proposing cutting Social Security benefits.

Do you recognize that in the next ten years or so, the Trust Fund on Social Security is going to run out?

The biggest threat is in ten years or so, the Social Security Trust Fund runs out of money.

That is simply wrong, and it's not honest to say that to Members of Congress.

The Second Amendment, especially in what we saw with New York's framework, was fundamentally treated and held to a different standard.

If you just looked at more guns equals safety, there's over 400 million firearms in the United States. If that was the case, we should be the safest country in the world. So more guns is not the answer to safety.

I just want to emphasize, again, that the Second Amendment isn't something new. Yes, it is old. It's been in place since 1791.

The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.'

We're talking about a provision of the Constitution. It is different than a legislative priority.

His claims there don't add up.

We need to speed up the process for giving approvals on controlled burns.

It takes too long to remediate after a fire.

We don't have enough fixed wing aircraft to be able to respond immediately to fires that could become conflagration.

It takes too long to remediate after a fire.