"So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?"
"But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they could..."
"In Ohio, if we increase the minimum wage to $50 an hour, I guarantee you the wages would go up."
"I believe that Social Security is the single most successful domestic program of the 20th century and it is our solemn obligation to preserve it and continue it and strengthen it for the 21st century."
"It is not merely a, quote, unquote, entitlement; it is an earned benefit."
"The easiest thing to do is to do nothing. But, as Chairman Larson pointed out, doing nothing means you are, de facto, in favor of 25 percent or at least 20 percent plus cuts come 2034."
"I share the commitment to work with you and with our Democratic colleagues to achieve reform in Social Security."
"The mission of the Republicans on this subcommittee is to secure Social Security benefits without tax increases."
"That does not reward work and it puts widows who have worked their entire lives at risk of poverty."
"That is the right thing to do after years of hard work."
"we cannot overlook the impact, the financial impact, on this very vital program."
"we need to act now to address this."