"I think people are going to have to ask themselves the question: which populations do they want to drop?"
"The Affordable Care Act will begin to bring down the per capita costs of health care throughout the system, including in Medicare."
"And we will fight any budget plan that extends deficit-busting tax breaks for millionaires and the wealthiest Americans and at the same time, rolls back Medicare and Medicaid health services, and Soci..."
"Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cause needless economic harm and would set back efforts to create a more disciplined and more effective health care system."
"We recognize that a variety of measures are necessary to accomplish that objective, but we will vigorously oppose any effort to undermine the integrity of those programs."
"the bipartisan fiscal commission that was charged with reducing our deficits specifically warned against that action right now."
"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."
"We have frittered away our time without addressing the problem."
"The cumulative corrosive impacts of sustained deficits in the face of a full appointment economy, would unbalance, make the extension of the tax cuts a, quote, `modestly negative policy choice'?"
"How can you have testimony that doesn't even address the revenue side?"
"I agree that we need to come together on a bipartisan basis now, to come up with a plan that shows we are going to reduce the deficits and debt in a predictable, sustained manner."