"It is long overdue."
"Congress needs to act. We are the committee of cognizance. We need to act on behalf of the people we are sworn to serve."
"What is your estimate in terms of the jobs that the Inflation Reduction Act will create?"
"I want to associate myself with his remarks."
"I commend the President for his budget that increases the opportunity, and makes Medicare more solvent, and also strengthens Social Security, and it does so, actually, by paying for it."
"How many people are in that area of earning over $400,000, and is it fair that someone who is making 30 or 50 or $75,000 pays in the whole time, and someone like Elon Musk stops paying after day one f..."
"I applaud you for the big ideas that are coming forward, and I think they are essential to a democracy."
"I had introduced a bill that said one of the ways that we could correct this was to have 4-year terms for Members of Congress."
"I think the biggest threat that we face in our democratic republic... is still a practice."
"Well, actually, you are absolutely right, the Founding Fathers had a major debate over this because they thought it should be 1 year."
"the lack of civic understanding and responsibility, which is critical for a republic, isn't taught."
"we should have to go along with that, what Australia does with 100 percent voting, and having voting as a requirement."