Chris Hollen actually said...

"I believe we all agree that it is important to come together now, as the Chairman said, to develop and enact a sensible plan to reduce that debt in a steady and a predictable fashion."

"the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, testified just very recently that slashing the budget that way would, quote, Translate into a couple hundred thousand jobs, so it is not trivial, unq..."

"Enacting measures that would slow down job growth would not only impose additional and unnecessary economic pain on American families, it will harm the goal of deficit reduction."

"I hope that we won't play politics with the full faith and credit of the United States."