Chris Hollen actually said...

"The Simpson-Bowles commission, the bipartisan commission, set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their 10 year window."

"I dare say that Republicans and Democrats alike agree that the sequester is not the best way to achieve that deficit reduction."

"I think what the president has proposed is that we want to achieve a net of $1.5 trillion in additional revenue, and doing it in a way that protects middle income taxpayers, but does ask the folks at ..."

"This is not about the politics of envy or class warfare, this about how do we solve a deficit problem in a way that asks for shared responsibility."