Thomas McClintock actually said...

"So would it be fair to say that cutting the payroll tax without reducing the obligations that the payroll tax pays for is simply playing a shell game over which taxes are going to pay for those obliga..."

"We have to ask ourselves what were those policies? The Bush administration increased spending by over 2 percent, over 2.5 percent of GDP."

"A year ago, we had one economist after another coming before this committee warning us that the federal government needs to get its finances in order in the next three to five years to avoid a fiscal ..."

"Perhaps the reason the ranking member does not remember those days as vividly is because they did not last very long, and those policies produced one of the great economic expansions in our nation's h..."