Ben Cardin actually said...

Again, thank all of you for your testimony.

This deficit is unconscionable, and as we are starting to see projections on the deficit come in now, those projections are accurate.

The rushed and opaque process prevented our constituents from weighing in in a meaningful way on the policies that will affect all of them.

I was and still am disappointed about the rush partisan process that ultimately resulted in last year's Republican tax bill.