"It is a fiscally irresponsible economic disaster."
"You have got to invest in your infrastructure."
"We need to seriously evaluate out-of-control government spending."
"I applaud the President's bipartisan unity agenda with Addiction and Mental Health Priorities 1 and 2, so thank you."
"I am a capitalist through and through, as most of my Democratic colleagues are capitalists."
"the only Republican budget we have out here, which is the Republican Study Committee, which proposes to privatize Medicare."
"I introduced legislation last year that was designed to extend the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund to 2040."
"We have to start this yesterday. You know, being six inches from failure is very, very serious."
"He has been successful, I think, in essentially shaming Republicans into saying that they won't cut Social Security and Medicare."
"I had hoped this morning we might see some specific Republican alternatives to this budget."
"I cannot understand why we would increase defense spending when the Pentagon can't even pass an audit 5 times."