Jimmy Panetta actually said...

"Thank you very much for this opportunity to have this type of hearing on something that is important, not just to my community on the Central Coast of California, but clearly to the United States and ..."

"we have a lot of programs--this is one of them--and we have programs in our schools as well to get their children involved in it, too."

"But what puts the fear in me is that deficits are growing beyond our will to control it."

"It means that we will need to be fiscally responsible when it comes to our spending and, yes, raise the revenue to do it."