Jim McGovern actually said...

"I appreciate very much your being here, your testimony, and look forward to working with you. I am particularly concerned about the issue of making sure you have adequate funding to be able to carry o..."

"the notion that we are not going to help people who are desperately in need because we have a budget crisis, I think, is unacceptable."

"I, too, believe that we need to get our budget deficits under control, but I don't want to do it by balancing the budget on the backs of the poorest of the poor in this country."

"But the reality is, for many, many years, we have been balancing the budget on the backs of the poor in this country."