"We need to focus on common sense solutions that would reduce the deficit while preserving the important programs."
"The bipartisan bill moves forward on recommendations the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made."
"We must fund home energy assistance programs like LIHEAP for families across the country who are struggling to stay warm."
"I feel a special responsibility to help meet the needs of that community and to the parents who have suffered such unimaginable horror."
"Nothing in the proposal could cut benefits for veterans, members of the Armed Forces, or for seniors."
"I mean, the fact is, as I think your testimony elicits today, is that when the sequestration was actually first designed in 1985, I mean, because that is really the formula that we are operating under..."
"But in terms of real savings, I mean, that is where I think, you know, holding off repair work is kind of like not getting your oil change in your car."
"I really want to thank the chairman for holding this hearing."
"It has not gone unnoticed and hopefully, some of our colleagues in other areas of jurisdiction in the house are going to take the incredible outpouring of reaction in response to Newtown as seriously ..."
"I am sort of an all-of-the-above guy in terms of a lot of the ideas that are being presented here today."
"there is a loan forgiveness program for pediatric and adolescent psychiatry, which through the National Health Service Corps, which is going to expire this year"
"We should not be the world's policeman, but we must be able to give the rest of the world the confidence to know that we are able to maintain the free flow of a global community of commerce and freedo..."