"Americans deserve more than faith-based economics."
"Massive tax cuts are not the answer, even though we are likely to hear that claim a lot today."
"Rescinding regulations without a very thorough understanding...would be irresponsible."
"I would like to just make a couple of comments regarding Chairman Black's opening, because I know it is nice to forget about the condition that the economy was in when President Obama took office."
"we were running a $1.4 trillion annual deficit. We had lost the month he took office 800,000 jobs, that was the trend at that point."
"there are now 6 million jobs available in the United States."
"would that not dictate that we invest more heavily in job training and education."
"I think all three of you have talked about immigration reform and supported the need for immigration reform."
"Would not comprehensive immigration reform also have a positive impact on our programs like Social Security and Medicare?"
"The evidence is there that Congress is not particularly capable right now of taking on very many difficult tasks."
"The level of cuts to investments that Americans need is astonishing and, frankly, immoral."
"This budget cuts Medicaid by another $600 billion, that is a total cut of $1.4 trillion to a program that is the only source of healthcare for tens of thousands of individuals in every single congress..."