Mike Braun actually said...

"It is very important that we have our Federal finances in as strong of a position as possible, and an emergency fund could very well be an important component of that."

"They have a fairly--they have got somewhat larger central Government, probably budget, but they don't borrow money to spend what they want to spend."

"I think it is great advice and I think that data was coming in while we were contending with it, and we just were stubborn in not focusing on where we knew the problem was the worst with the elderly, ..."

"Interest payments on our debt are going to be the single most expensive thing we do in the Federal Government."