Chris Van Hollen

I hope we can--look, I think we are all incredibly disappointed that the hopes for democracy in Sudan have been hijacked here

He is a war criminal. We know about his history in Darfur.

We don't have the votes here to do it.

We all want to avoid a default. That seems to be a no-brainer to me.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank all of you for being here.

We shouldn't blame China for dominating the solar panel industry worldwide, using Australian technology, I might add, but we should be criticizing ourselves for not doing more to be competitive.

Climate change increases federal budget deficits on net.

I hope we can--look, I think we are all incredibly disappointed that the hopes for democracy in Sudan have been hijacked here

He is a war criminal. We know about his history in Darfur.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank all of you for being here.

We all want to avoid a default. That seems to be a no-brainer to me.

Climate change increases federal budget deficits on net.

We don't have the votes here to do it.

I hope we can--look, I think we are all incredibly disappointed that the hopes for democracy in Sudan have been hijacked here.

He is a war criminal. We know about his history in Darfur.

President Biden has put a budget plan on the table. In fact, much more detailed than the plan that passed the House of Representatives.

Should he say if you don't adopt my plan I'm not going to sign a debt ceiling increase?

I did see your assessment that if you actually passed the House Republican plan we would lose 790,000 jobs in the economy.

I wish I shared Senator Romney's optimism about the chances of not defaulting this year, having been very involved in the 2011 debate. I am much more worried that this time it will go over that cliff.

Signals a deficiency of leadership

Even the republican Chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees transportation and housing spending implied that the proposed cuts are 'essentially unworkable'.

We're supposed to choose between 790,000 and nearly 1 million jobs lost between recession and 141 billion dollar hit to the economy, pick your poison.

Attempting to extract partisan policy concessions with threats to intentionally drive the American economy off a cliff is the very definition of extremism.

The Senate should pass this bill immediately, particularly as we learned on Tuesday the Treasury could run out of funds as soon as June 1st.

A long-term default would cost over 7 million jobs and push the unemployment rate over 8 percent.