John Shimkus actually said...

We believe that the direct economic impacts would be a total of direct, indirect, and payroll-induced effects of 155,000 jobs, $9.7 billion ...

Chairman Pallone was most angry about the donut hole provisions which we placed in there for budgetary--to make the numbers work.

We wrestled with how to get Medicare. In fact, a lot of conservative Republicans got beat up quite a bit on this because we expanded in esse...

Speaker Pelosi often says, 'show me your budget, show me your values,' and I think that's true.