"More money borrowed, more money spent, and it really didn't do a great job on protecting those that needed it most."
"We cannot adopt the model of panicked crisis governance as a standard response for emergencies."
"We are always prepared, and if you don't do that, you have to dig your hole even deeper."
"Last week, I joined Sanders, Lee, Blumenthal, Crapo, Risch, and Murphy as a broad bipartisan effort to introduce the Article I Act."
"over the last two decades, it is north of maybe $10 trillion that have been added to the Federal debt."
"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."
"I don't think we will do that until you hit the ditch fairly hard."
"I think sooner or later, when you have any understanding of fiscal policy and macroeconomics, you are going to pay the piper with inflation and other things that happen due to that approach."
"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, ..."
"Prudent budgeting and planning are integral for both emergency preparedness and response to be successful."
"Interest payments on our debt are going to be the single most expensive thing we do in the Federal Government."