"No matter what we do, these health care challenges are going to require buy-in from all sides."
"I appreciate your expertise. I have just a few questions, if I may."
"The idea that if we short-circuit the recovery now then that is going to have that negative impact on the long-term."
"We are nearly a week into the sequester that went into effect on March 1st."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for your testimony today, for your report, and really for your great leadership on monetary policy for our country over the last several year..."
"You have consistently said that we need to be careful in the short term, do no harm in the short term, if I may, and address our long-term imbalances, fiscal imbalances in the outyears."
"Do you believe as I do that health care costs are the primary driver of our outyear deficits?"
"One of the specific ideas that have been floated is to increase the age for Medicare eligibility."
"I have found in the 2-plus years that I have been sitting on this committee that the most challenging thing is to seek some light with all the heat that has been going on."
"We recognize that there was an important role in the marketplace. We want to make it stronger; we want to protect the taxpayers."
"disagree[s] strongly"
"We should address the drivers of the deficit, and Social Security currently is not a driver of the deficit."