John Carter actually said...

"But it is not. And if we add it in as mandatory, it just means more things that are going to have the oversight of what we do in our Committee, and therefore, just moves us closer to that time when we..."

"To set up a situation where we may inadvertently be creating more mandatory spending, to me, is not a good idea."

"It is time for us to dig in to some of those things."

"Thank you for scheduling this hearing."