"I just wanted to express my gratitude to Under Secretary Brainard for you making yourself available to me and my staff for a very good bipartisan meeting."
"Thank you, Mr. Larsen."
"I urge you to reverse the devastating cuts to education and R&D that have been enacted by sequestration."
"If even a fraction of this money returned to the State, we would not have a fiscal crisis in Illinois at this moment."
"It is unreasonable and irresponsible to make these deep cuts in programs like investments in research and development."
"I urge the leadership of this committee to craft a budget that replaces the mindless cuts of the sequester with sensible investments."
"As this committee prepares a budget for fiscal year 2014, I urge you to reverse the devastating cuts to education and R&D that have been enacted by sequestration."
"By some estimates, the cuts from sequestration to R&D will result in a loss of 600,000 jobs over the next three years."
"When people ask me to reduce to a single number where are we and where our economy is, I go to household net worth."
"It is remarkable, in that context, that we are not in a great depression today."
"It is hard to actually look at this and conclude that there was not a positive benefit."
"Household net worth has rebounded by more than 10 times that."