"I would just say... it would be useful, I think, to ask every individual who is on this bipartisan group whether they agree with the three specific bills."
"Mr. Chairman, if I might, since the gentleman referred to a comment I had made. I would like to put in a record a transcript of a YouTube posting by Mr. Holtz-Eakin on what would happen in the event t..."
"The sequester was included in the legislation as a last resort to encourage, to pressure the Congress to develop a bipartisan alternative."
"Our Republican colleagues continue to resist the balanced approach to deficit reduction that has been recommended by every bipartisan group."
"The cuts would be both too deep and too arbitrary."
"That, Mr. Chairman, I think is a twisted result."
"Apparently, our Republican colleagues decided to put the taxpayer at risk instead."
"more of the same meaning cutting important investments, shredding the social safety net, and again protecting tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and for special interests."
"I hope we will all take the same balanced approach to reducing the deficit as has been recommended by bipartisan commissions."
"I think we all agree that that meat-axe, indiscriminate approach is the wrong way to go."
"The reality is that they put up something that didn't contain any of the backup that the President provided."
"It is very clear that it is deficit reduction."