Ben Cardin actually said...

"I am deeply disappointed. We have gone through this many times in the last year or so, and I thought we had reached some understandings on Federal retirement contributions."

"I think the budget that you have presented is balanced in that you look at ways in which we can manage our deficit and get it to a responsible level."

"the most important stakeholders, as Chairman Baucus has pointed out, are taxpayers in this country and the families that depend upon the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, ..."

"I do not think we intended that families would not have coverage."