"Before spending billions more on additional federal housing programs, we should take a good, hard look at why existing programs have fallen short."
"I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just not a climate change alarmist."
"we've spent about five trillion dollars, globally, combatting climate change. I've asked witnesses, well, have we made a dent in it?"
"climate change is a problem worthy of our attention. If Democrats want to discuss budgetary proposals related to climate change, we can have that debate, but it's clear they don't."
"Thanks to many of you, especially Senator Grassley and Chairman Durbin, I was spared from spending another decade behind bars."
"President Biden wants to take us back to having the highest corporate tax rate amongst our major trading partners."
"This has prevented us from discussing ways to improve our immediate and dire economic position."
"For the good of our nation we must begin to find common ground to address a national debt that recently topped $34 trillion."
"Our unsustainable fiscal outlook is a bipartisan problem because both parties talk about it, and it's going to require a bipartisan solution to resolve."
"Let's face it, we're broke."
"We hear Democrats argue for a cascade of expensive and expansive federal climate proposals that will saddle us and local governments with debt and red tape."
"We're broke here in Washington, D.C."