Jim Himes actually said...

"We put a lot of people needlessly at risk here, including young people at the start of their careers."

"Congress has the power of the purse. And no, the president doesn't have the right to say, sorry, Congress, even though you appropriated it, I'm not going to spend it."

"So the message that Donald Trump is sending here is that if you're a flag officer and you're doing what you think is right and constitutional, that's not good enough. You do what I tell you to do."

"I bet he wasn't elected to make people hungry, to make them homeless, and to make sure that they couldn't heat their houses in the winter."