"the fact of the matter is we are going to spend $98 billion in Afghanistan this year, isn't that correct?"
"there actually is some overlap between budget documents that have been voted on by the vast majority of the Republicans in the House and what the President actually put forward."
"we have fought two wars on a credit card, and that post-2014 it is not going to be down to zero, but we are going to be bringing down that process of pouring money into Afghanistan."
"I can't imagine what it would be like to have the title of Director of Office of Management and Budget and to have had no support in Congress for a budget."
"the fact of the matter is, is that having an adequately financed CFTC will in fact result in benefit to the taxpayer through enforcement actions"
"the situation at Peregrine, in my opinion, really demonstrates the weaknesses that existed pre-Dodd-Frank in terms of your ability to detect outright cases of fraud and deception"
"having these more robust authorities through Dodd-Frank is actually going to help detect actual cases of fraud and deceit"
"Well, I just want to say, Mr. Chairman, for the record, that there are a lot of small businesses, particularly people who are end-users in the energy sector, certainly in my state, who are looking for..."
"Hopefully this measure which is moving forward in the House this week to freeze all regulations in its track, a chainsaw throughout the whole government, won't move forward because even though the sta..."
"Thank you for holding this hearing and the witnesses for your really important testimony here today."
"Hazing has no place in our military. It undermines our military readiness and deeply scars those volunteers forced to endure it."
"Again, we, in fact, pushed the advanced procurement add-on in the 2007-2008 budget cycle, which provided that opportunity to get to two in 2011."