"we are pleased that you are here so that we can have a hearing on tax cuts that never took place when they should have."
"So to know--it is somewhat not heartening to all of my constituents to know that they are subsidizing the tax cut of the wealthiest in this Nation."
"Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. They are benefits that people paid for."
"And I hear people say things which I don't appreciate, because in the line of civility to call something a scam, I don't know what some people consider a scam, but we just endured 2 years in this coun..."
"So raise your hand if you think the individual mandate helps lower income Americans?"
"But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they could..."
"Credit President Trump at least for standing up and saying that in a debate and saying it directly to the Republicans."
"I want to thank Representative Rice yesterday for acknowledging that Chairman Johnson had a plan as well."
"There has got to be a need for us to come together as a committee and discuss this issue."
"Our solution on this side is Social Security 2100. This would boost benefits and reaches solvency."
"Social Security has been and is an enormously successful program that is essential to the retirement security of a vast majority of Americans."
"It is vitally important that long-term solvency be restored and that the Social Security benefits be improved to meet the needs of all Americans."