I hope that there is an appreciation that for the Administration to say they could not purchase these things and then after several months divert some funds and then purchase them is unacceptable.

I am one of those that doesn't understand why golden parachutes are provided by boards ever.

We are now at a point, because Congress has not given us additional funding, that we have had to do these things that are unacceptable.

But we should have been--we are part of Congress. When you are asking us for $10 billion, we should be apprised of what those tradeoffs are and have that discussion and help make that decision together.

the Administration has recklessly and unilaterally spent taxpayers' money. We have runaway inflation.

I thank Representative Arrington for yielding. I am so appreciative that he brought up the night that we broke bread and the excitement that I had. I did, I lit up knowing that there was a real concerted effort to be able to forge a path…

Senator Romney recently tried to get an up-or-down vote in the dead of night on his so-called TRUST Act.

We do not need more think tanks. We need 'do tanks.' How do you get something done?

Any proposal that is brought forward that is only supported by one party is a messaging bill.

To get something done requires bipartisanship.

The Social Security Trust Fund runs out of money in 2034. That is a problem.

If we do not come up with a bipartisan solution we will not save it.

We do not just meet in hearings like this. We have meetings, private meetings, all the time.

The Social Security Trust Fund goes away by 2034, at which point benefits are cut automatically.

We can do that. We will do that. And I tell you, the disingenuous attack on Republicans is something which--by the way, just as Senator Graham said, your approach is making it harder for us to find a solution to save Social Security, and…

His bill has no chance whatsoever of receiving a single Republican vote in either house.

I spent 25 years balancing budgets.

We know we are at $30 trillion in debt.