"the President has declared war again on the Affordable Care Act but again, our mission is just to keep again using the best information possible because health care is such a dynamic issue"
"when we passed patient protections with the Affordable Care Act in 2009, again it was this committee that really crafted the language regarding preexisting conditions, lifetime limits, essential benef..."
"I would like to just change the subject for a minute to talk about, recently, the Coast Guard actually was part of a deployment in the Straits of Taiwan."
"During the shutdown, there was this view that, you know, again, this was not part of the DOD fabric, and obviously what they are doing out there really rebuts that narrative."
"I call the meeting to order."
"Again, that really doesn't add up to a very good business case in terms of, you know, the very tough decisions that we are going to have to make."
"They, as far as I am concerned, completely abdicated on what everybody realizes must happen if we are going to move forward with a budget."
"It actually was $10.4 billion. And, actually, $2.3 billion came from the Army."
"I think it is a pretty safe bet that the top line for defense is going to come down when the two chambers actually do what should have been done over the last 3 months."
"I would just say, you almost get whiplash around here trying to sort of follow the back-and-forth coming out of the Department."
"the fact of the matter is the ship is really a 2023 ship."