"I think frankly that was the power of the President's message when he was on the road which is that people were seeing home mortgage rates at 3 percent and kids were going to see their rates go up to ..."
"Hopefully we can find that sweet spot to try and adjust the system."
"But again, it is a challenge because of that 2002 budget baseline that everything costs money when you are trying to sort of fix this thing and--but I think again, we have got to sort of step back and..."
"we all benefit from it and it is a social benefit that we shouldn't allow arbitrary budget rules to necessarily interfere with."
"we have, I think, a duty to make sure that we are helping people make that choice and loan forgiveness..."
"But I think again, we have got to sort of step back and recognize there is a social value here about making higher education affordable."
"I urge you to reject proposals that would end Medicare as we know it."
"We need to make LIHEAP funding a priority in 2014."
"It's a national crisis."
"This is a committee which last year and apparently this year again seems to be the place where the strongest effort is being made, in my opinion, to butcher a program which has done so much in terms o..."
"I think this is the wrong approach."
"I have been against sequestration from the very beginning."