"Last year when we received the President's budget for 2018, I described it as a betrayal with a long list of broken promises, which it was."
"This is an irresponsibly extreme budget that reflects a disdain for working families as well as a disheartening lack of vision for a stronger society."
"The budget calls for massive cuts to healthcare, antipoverty programs, and investments in economic growth all to blunt the deficit-exploding impact of the President's tax cuts."
"That is such a dangerously low level of funding, it would leave the government unable to carry out its basic functions."
"If you believe America is better off by gutting these investments, you fundamentally misunderstand the true source of our Nation's strength. I yield back."
"I think there is a way forward here and I would just ask you to study it, and I would not expect you to embrace it today."
"I think that an opportunity exists to do that again, and if we could reform something like that--and again, Mr. Delaney and I have presented this for three consecutive Congresses--I think this Preside..."
"Now, any discussion of the budget is going to involve a judgment as to what the appropriate role of government is, and many of us in this room have different philosophies about what is the appropriate..."
"So with that in mind, this week on Face the Nation, you were asked about the spending levels of the President's budget, and you said that the Democrats--you said this actually again today, 'would not ..."
"Well, you know, we know what happens when people say social programs. Many Americans think welfare."
"I hope we never get to the point in this debate or in this country where we are trying to pit tanks against teachers."
"A huge increase in what we are spending on defense. Absolutely a huge amount of increase."