Chris Hollen actually said...

"Why would you enter into an agreement where our Republican colleagues can come back and say well, hey, we can spend $1 billion on all the operations of the U.S. Government?"

"I don't see how you can't also take the position that 50 percent of that spending has to come from defense."

"But that is not what the Ag Committee chose to do. What they chose to do was to cut food nutrition programs that will cut food assistance immediately to every single household receiving those food nut..."

"Unfortunately, our Republican colleagues decided it was more important to protect some of those special interest tax loopholes than it was to protect the defense portion of the spending."