"Please be totally honest with everybody about what this is all going to cost."
"The only measure cited as positive, year-over-year deficit improvement, is meaningless against a baseline of necessary but actual record COVID deficit spending."
"How do we return to a fiscally and, yes, thus economically and socially sustainable path?"
"The TRUST Act would take steps to secure the endangered species of Social Security and Medicare."
"We must change all that."
"I am for PAYGO, bottom line."
"I am 100 percent in favor of zero-based budgeting."
"This proposal, introduced by me and others this Congress on a bipartisan, bicameral basis, would establish a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform."
"During my recent delegation visit to the Pacific, a recurring theme from our friends and allies is the need for more U.S. presence."
"We simply must reinvest in these facilities and our world-class shipyard workers."
"I ask this committee to fully support the President's additional $1 billion FY2023 budget for Red Hill."