Tom Carper actually said...

"I think we have done good work. I am proud of what we have done, building on the record that Dr. Coburn helped to create."

"We need to do something on the spending side. It cannot just be all discretionary spending, or defense spending, or entitlement spending."

"If the President had run with this when you guys said, 'This is what we recommend,' we would not be having this hearing today."

"It is shameful. I think it is shameful."