Rick Allen actually said...

"Thank you, Chairwoman Bonamici and Ranking Member Comer for allowing me to cross committees."

"Every time, I mean, when I get up in the morning I think about economic growth and creating jobs."

"So for us to sit here and say we are going to solve your problem is, it is troublesome because some people say it might take 400 million years to pay off that debt."

"We set, you know, in a similar meeting and, you know, it looks like we have made little or no progress and a lot of promises were made and not kept."