"What I see in the plans that have been suggested on the Republican side is cost-shifting."
"CISPA stands alone in failing to follow this common wisdom."
"Next week, I plan to re-introduce the Honest Budget Act, an important piece of legislation that would address some of the most common accounting tricks used by politicians to hide the truth, confuse t..."
"It's been said before many times--and it remains true--that budgets are moral documents."
"As you begin work on this year's budget resolution, I encourage you to look with a clear eye towards the state of our economy, American workers, and the nation as a whole."
"But those successes are not universally shared. Inequality is at its highest point since the Great Depression, unemployment is stuck hovering around 8 percent and wages are stagnant--as they have been..."
"I strongly support approval of the Honest Budget Act in its entirety, and I welcome any future hearings this Committee may hold to examine its various provisions."
"we want to and have been cutting the waste, fraud and abuse and we need to build on our successes"
"the $716 billion that Democrats were able to save through Obamacare that reduced the cost of Medicare without cutting benefits"
"we agree, we all agree that waste, fraud and abuse is a problem"
"We don't think that that estimate was credible and we asked them to do another one."
"I appreciate his decades of work to make Medicare, Medicaid, the programs our citizens rely on, more efficient."