"I think that is the law of the land. It hasn't been changed."
"You just can't declare something at the executive branch that it is no longer the law."
"I am glad to see somebody else brought up Yucca Mountain first."
"I believe it is a very important program, and that is another program where, again, in an austere budget, we tried to keep that as high as possible."
"I am disappointed in the budget overall, not necessarily how you allocated the money, but the request."
"I am shocked, Secretary Lyons, that you would tell us that operating on a CR has implications for agencies out there."
"You ought to at least present a budget which says, 'I do not care, 50 years from now.' Make it some time, but tell us when, if we adopt this spending plan, when we will achieve a balanced budget, and ..."
"They talk a lot about it, but their budgets do not reflect that, and I also hear a lot of talk about Simpson-Bowles, which I support, but you know what? This administration walked away from it."
"What the American people want to know is how much deficit are we going to add to our current deficit if we were to pass this blueprint this year, which I understand is $1.3 trillion."
"We have had economists and other experts come and tell us that we have a structural deficit problem that is unsustainable."
"We all know that we have got to restrain discretionary spending. We all know that we have got to get entitlements under control."