"This DCP will provide certainty to Arizonans as to what their water security will look like for future generations and, indeed, for the entire Colorado River Basin states."
"I think it's no secret to anybody who's watched my performance on this Committee that I've been a longtime critic of the IRIS Program."
"I've reintroduced this bill the current Congress, but I doubt for some reason that it'll be reported out of this Committee again anytime soon."
"And failure is not a loss for a political party so much as a loss for the American people, who have seen Social Security's unfunded liabilities grow by the trillions while Congress has failed to act."
"Members have an obligation to know the program and to know the data on Americans' retirement savings and retirement incomes."
"your suggestion of off-the-record discussions, question-and-answer periods where people can reach out to each other is precisely what is needed to move a bipartisan Social Security reform bill forward..."
"To keep them from falling into indigence, I guess, would be the word."
"The longer we wait, the harder it is going to be."
"the household Social Security income declines sharply at widowhood from between 50 percent for a couple that had equal earnings, to about a third for couples where there was just one earner."
"People said, people should pay in and would get the money back with some reasonable rate of interest."
"Democrats and Republicans are both at fault in the current fiscal state of our country."
"Both parties need to look at reforming Social Security and Medicare to ensure these programs remain sustainable."