Jeff Sessions

I personally believe that the $520 billion would be a really difficult swing, but I think it should be developed by strategy.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt

It is time to adopt a balanced approach, as my colleagues say, to deficit reduction.

It is time for the Commander-in-Chief to provide certainty in the defense budget and explain the dangers of these large defense cuts.

I believe the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America has a high duty.

The matters that we are facing today have been made substantially worse by the fact that the President has blocked defense planning to make this happen.

We have an absolute duty to serve the children effectively, and we need to make sure every dollar we spend is wisely used to get a good result.

I am concerned--now, I will ask Mr. Muhlhausen and Mr. Lesley this question--well, first, Ms. Crowe, with regard to Virginia and the importance they placed on fiscal management, your remarks talk about the danger of reductions in spending.

Well, thank you, and thank you, Sakhia, for your testimony, and I am glad you are doing well in school.

We will work with you to see where we can find other areas that the budget can be tightened

Well, the regular order calls for the bringing up of the House budget on the floor and 50 hours of debate.

I think there is not support to raise spending--raise taxes for increasing general spending.

I thank you, and Governors Warner and Kaine and King work hard to deal with the budget issues that they face.

Would you agree that tax increases are a form of austerity as well as spending cuts?

The austerity we talk about is raising taxes.

We must stick to that agreement. We need to spread the spending cuts around.

We must start defining compassion and helpfulness, not by how much money we spend but how many people we actually help to remove themselves out of poverty.

I think that bipartisan support for a serious plan to enhance our infrastructure, but the American people need to know how little of our actual revenue is going to that.

This is a critical choice we are facing, and we need to honestly review it.

Excessive, non-productive spending and the consequently high and growing national debt hurt the pace of economic activity.

Our broken Tax Code is but one expression of the burden bad fiscal policy places on the economy.

What do we do to create growth and get our debt under control? Is it just raise taxes or is it reduce spending?

Well, if the witness would like more time, I think he should be given it.

I do not want us to repeat the mistakes made by some governments of increasing taxes when the real problem is excessive spending.

I really do not believe that there is no waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government, and a sequester or BCA reduction of 2 or 3 percent in the growth is not going to--is poor management by the people who run this Government if…