Jared Huffman actually said...

"I just want to respectfully push back a little bit on this idea that because we have had a deficit over the past decade, there must be plenty of money to go around the Federal Government."

"What did land us in this problem, of course, is that we launched a couple of wars, and for the first time in our country's history, the good folks here in Congress decided instead of raising taxes to ..."

"My hope is that we can go forward from here, take these elements of consensus and build something that could be a strong bipartisan product."

"We can't whitewash the full consequences of our unhealthy reliance on big oil, and the inherent dangers of some of these drilling operations."