"Neither party should take credit for balancing the budget in the 1990s."
"As the Comptroller General said, a Democrat, a Comptroller General who sat in that same seat last year, said we are heading for an unsustainable situation."
"Repealing the ACA would increase the supply of labor."
"The ACA directly imposes higher taxes on labor income, thus, discouraging work."
"I think that is, again, part of the work that we have got to do in the Budget Committee in regard to making sure that the able-bodied are in the workforce."
"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."
"we don't want the Federal Government's involvement in this to infringe upon the State's authority to conduct elections."
"This Administration has seized upon a real opportunity to undo much of the damage our government has created through years of overregulation."