Gary Palmer actually said...

"my point, Mr. Chairman, is that since you are now the Chairman of the Budget Committee, we have some serious work to do if we want to get our fiscal house in order."

"I want to get away from the partisan jabs and get to issues that I think all of us ought to take very seriously."

"Would you suggest that this Committee might ought to be taking a very serious look at how we scale that back instead of talking about what we did last year or year before last?"

"when someone has paid their debt, that debt is paid, and they ought to be able to reenter society."