"We call upon Speaker Boehner to put the President's job proposal to a vote on the floor of the House."
"Unfortunately the Speaker's threat to let the nation to default on its debt if Republicans cannot impose their European-style austerity plan is cementing the view in capital markets that lawmakers wil..."
"And yet for many in the House of Representatives compromise remains a dirty word."
"It's time for the GOP to put the needs of all American families ahead of millionaires and Big Oil companies."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me just pick up first where the chairman left off with some of his hypotheticals."
"my recollection is that the CBO analysis showed that it really just shifted a lot of the rising health care costs off the Medicare program and on to seniors, is that not right?"
"while it may somewhat reduce the amount of reduce the amount of risk and cost shift to seniors, it does not eliminate that problem."
"I want to get back to fact we in the Democratic alternative budget proposed a balanced approach that combines needed cuts."
"I do think it is grossly irresponsible for anybody to threaten that the United States will not meet its obligations unless we enact somebody else's version of how to best reduce the budget."
"the Republican budget that he supports would require a $5.2 trillion dollar increase in the debt ceiling."
"the recovery bill, the stimulus bill, helped the economy relative to not doing a stimulus, and the answer from CBO and 80 percent of economists is that it helped the economy."
"we have saved or created over three million jobs."