"I have only gotten to serve with two Presidents while I have been in Congress. President Obama I believe loved this country, but never once sent a budget to Capitol Hill that balanced ever, not in five years, not in 10 years, not in 15 years, not in 60 years, and so I want you to know I know you are..."
"I appreciate your not trying to supplant our local control in this budget, but I want to be clear."
"How often in the President's budget proposal are we spending less the next year than we were spending in the previous year?"
"I hope that the leadership on the other side will find time to present a bill to the floor of the House of Representatives where the entire Congress can vote on a budget."
"Now, provide for the general welfare, I mean, that is kind of a broad subject, and I think we can have a debate that goes a long time about what constitutes general welfare and what does not."
"You have got a tough job. I mean, how do you--if you look at the spectrum of the federal government, what we fund, how is it possible to come up with any kind of a plan, any kind of a budget that coul..."
"Funding the priorities of the American people while addressing our nation's fiscal challenges is not an easy task."
"As the Congressional Budget Office warned earlier this year, our nation is nearing a fiscal crisis. I would argue we are already in one."
"As you know, while the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, funding the priorities of the American people while addressing our nation's fiscal challenges is not an easy task."
"I will say again it is a flawed and broken process. It needs to change. We need budget process reform."
"Between now and the time that we fund the government on October 1st of 2020, we have still got a lot of ground to plow."