03/14/2012
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"My hope, Mr. Chairman, is that we can get past what is a political problem in Washington, DC, and create a path out of the situation that we are in."
"In that spirit, I want to ask you, Mr. Holtz-Eakin or any of the panelists, that $4 trillion number sounds large over a 10-year period."
"We have got 14 million people that are unemployed that we have not been able to figure out how to put back to work."
"If we really are accepting as a Congress a standard of outcomes of success that is just keeping the lights flickering... we are all going to rue the day that we did not have a more meaningful conversa..."