"What do you think we would have to cut spending to get in control of our debt?"
"And then we could try to grow out of it?"
"What if we cut our spending 1 percent, 1 percent?"
"It looks like about a $1.1 trillion deficit; is that correct?"
"That makes no sense."
"You are costing the taxpayers billions. Why are you doing that?"
"the only way I can--reason I can figure that you all are doing that is, is to try to give the economy a sugar high, 5 months before an election."
"you are paying 5 percent to borrow money when you could pay 4 percent to borrow money."
"the reason you are doing this is try to give the economy a sugar high 5 months before an election."
"The President has submitted a budget for our Corps of Engineers, $7.2 billion. That is a lot of money in anyone's book."
"We need a budget for the Corps of Engineers that looks like somebody designed it on purpose, and this budget doesn't do that."
"The bad news is that I was looking last night. It is 17 percent less than the Corps' current budget. That makes no sense to me."