"Our Republican colleagues continue to take the position that we are not going to take one penny of revenue for the purpose of deficit reduction."
"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."
"I don't see how you can't also take the position that 50 percent of that spending has to come from defense."
"The President has put forward a plan to get rid of that over 10 years and replace it with a balanced approach."
"You leave defense exposed for the remaining 9 years."
"What we are seeing out of this process is a totally unbalanced approach."
"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 hope we are not going to be driven to a government shutdown by our Republican colleagues."
"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..."
"Now, that is not a balanced approach. Not one penny from big agribusiness, not one penny from ag subsidies."
"A majority in this body, Mr. Chairman, on the Budget Control Act, voted to make sure that the programs like food and nutrition programs for the most vulnerable were not subject to these deep cuts."
"they have a plan for replacing the sequester."