"We have hit 24 months of a highly distorted economy. It is going to take time to recover and we are in fact recovering."
"I want to point out, as you know, that every Democratic president since Kennedy is--every Democratic administration since Kennedy has left office with a better deficit situation than they inherited, w..."
"And every Republican president since then has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited, without exception."
"As Members of this Committee have often reminded us, budgets are a statement of values."
"the economics of war is terrible. It doesn't produce any economic benefit that is broadly felt."
"I don't really think that it is appropriate to say that it is about men versus women, that it is much more appropriate to say that it is about governmental policy and how you shut down an economy."
"We do need to provide much better oversight over everything the government does."
"We have to focus as much on building capacity as we do on helping our citizens afford service."
"Virtually all of the American Rescue Plan was designed to deal with the impact of COVID."
"the American Rescue Plan was responsible for less than 1 percent of the inflation we are experiencing."
"the states that have done the worst in terms of preventing damage, health consequences to their citizens, they have been Republican led states and not Democratic led states."
"It is over 12 million barrels a day."