"the biggest threat to all of these priorities, and to the long-term security of our nation, is our out-of-control mandatory spending."
"Allow the chairman of the committee or the chair of the Committee on the Budget to request CBO prepare a preliminary report, including estimated budgetary authority on legislation to be considered in ..."
"About 65 analysts are devoted to producing cost estimates after full committee markup, but producing estimates on the routine basis before markup would eliminate some of the work that now occurs after..."
"It is my strong belief that in the last two decades, thanks to the efforts in the entire readiness scenario to better prepare our men and women in uniform to perform battlefield medicine has saved a l..."
"There is enough stink on this deficit and debt issue to go around this room and around the Congress and around previous Congresses and previous Presidents, left and right."
"I believe I have heard from more than one of my colleagues on the other side that it only helped the millionaires and the billionaires."
"the best thing to do is do nothing because it gets cut on its own in about five or six short years."
"There is a reason why we are in this fix right now. And we can blame it on taxes."
"It should be deeply unsettling to all of us here in this room that Fiscal Year 2020 will be the first year since fiscal 2012 that the deficit will eclipse a trillion."
"The money is on the mandatory side of spending."
"most politicians don't like to raise taxes. And most politicians don't like to cut benefits that have currently accrued a certain people, but at the end of the day when you have a trillion dollar defi..."