Joe Courtney actually said...

"It's a security crisis. It's an economic crisis."

"there's a skills gap that is definitely holding people back"

"Using the lever of default as a way of basically, you know, putting this country at gunpoint, in terms of having to adopt policies that fall outside the appropriations process and the authorizing proc..."

"if we really want to do something to help this country, is we need to fix this problem"