Scott Peters actually said...

"every Democratic Presidential Administration since Kennedy has left for their Republican successors a better deficit situation than they inherited, without exception, and every Republican Administrati..."

"Look, I am frustrated with our inability to deal with this in this Congress. I came to Congress to work on things like that."

"I hate when they say something I do takes guts. That is probably a bad signal, but I appreciate all the witnesses being here."

"under the Democrats, we pay for new spending and we pay for tax cuts. Under Republican rule, you pay for new spending, but you do not have to pay for tax cuts."